Agrawal, Ajay; Henderson, Rebecca - In: Management Science 48 (2002) 1, pp. 44-60
knowledge spilling out of the university by focusing on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and in particular, on … patenting rates. Most faculty members estimate that patents account for less than 10% of the knowledge that transfers from their … labs. Our results also suggest that in two important ways patenting is not representative of the patterns of knowledge …