This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two …), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing, and start-ups) and traditional academic scholarship. It exploits large …-scale, random sample cross-section surveys of nearly 1,500 scientists at the original 52 Land Grant Universities in 2005 and 2015 …

commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We …This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty … inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right …

Which factors shape the commercialization of academic scientific discoveries via startup formation? Prior literature … precisely examine characteristics that predict startup commercialization. In this framework, several commonly-accepted factors … appear not to influence commercialization. However, we find that teams of academic scientists whose former collaborators …

five research universities, we conclude that the most critical organizational factors are likely to be reward systems for … barriers between universities and firms …

-ups when the technology transfer officers (TTOs) search cost is high, the cost of development or commercialization is lower for …. Licensing is more likely in general, and especially so in start-ups, by universities with higher quality engineering faculty and … older TTOs. Start-ups are more likely by universities in states with larger levels of venture capital. TTO size has no …

Recent accounts suggest the development and commercialization of invention has become more “open.” Greater division of …, suppliers and technology specialists (i.e., universities, independent inventors and R&D contractors). We also estimate the …

' scientists, nearly all working at top universities. An operationally attractive generalization of our star measure …

affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated … hypothesis that the de-localization of this externality makes it more difficult for universities to appropriate any rent. Our …