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Academic vs. industry patenting: an in-depth analysis of what determines patent value

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  • Bruno Van Pottelsberghe
  • Eleftherios Sapsalis
  • Ran Navon

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This paper compares corporate and academic patents and tests whether they have similar value and similar determinants of value. The empirical results based on an in-depth analysis of 400 biotech patents applied by Belgian universities and firms lead to the following observations :(i) the value distributions show similar levels of skewness for both academic and corporate patents; (ii) for the two sectors the identification of the institutional origin of knowledge allows for an improved understanding of what determines the value of patents; (iii) of particular importance is to separate self backward citations from non-self backward citations (to patent and non patent literature); (iv) the results clearly underline the crucial role of academic research as a source of knowledge spillovers, and the need to focus on researchers with a high scientific profile in order to crystallize their tacit knowledge into high value patents, for both the academic and corporate sectors.
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  • Bruno Van Pottelsberghe & Eleftherios Sapsalis & Ran Navon, 2006. "Academic vs. industry patenting: an in-depth analysis of what determines patent value," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/6197, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    • Handle: RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/6197
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    • L33 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprise and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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