Verspagen, Bart - In: Journal of Economic Surveys 20 (2006) 4, pp. 607-632
is argued that patenting knowledge developed by university researchers is paradoxical: patents are normally intended to … stimulate knowledge development by providing property rights, but universities operate also under a different incentive scheme …, i.e. they receive public funds to perform socially useful knowledge. In the debate surrounding the so-called Bayh …