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Knowledge creates markets : the influence of entrepreneurial support and patent rights on academic entrepreneurship

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin; … - 2016 - This version: April 2016

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge Creates Markets that set up new infrastructure to...

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Industry-science connections in agriculture : do public science collaborations and knowledge flows contribute to firm-level agricultural research productivity?

Toole, Andrew A.; King, John L. - 2011

Prior research shows long-run productivity growth in agriculture is associated with increases in the stock of public scientific knowledge and private patented inventions. However, private inventions may be a function of the stock of public knowledge. In this paper, we examine the possibility...

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The impact of public basic research on industrial innovation : evidence from the pharmaceutical industry

Toole, Andrew A. - 2011 - This version: March 2011

While most economists believe that public scientific research fuels industry innovation and economic growth, systematic … size as a significant driver of drug innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, but they did not find any evidence … supporting science-driven innovation from publicly funded research. This paper uses new data on biomedical research investments …

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Individual versus institutional ownership of university-discovered inventions

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin; … - 2015

We examine how the ownership of intellectual property rights influences patenting of university-discovered inventions. In 2002, Germany transferred patent rights from faculty members to their universities. To identify the effect on the volume of patenting, we exploit the researcher-level...

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Biomedical academic entrepreneurship through the SBIR program

Toole, Andrew A. (contributor); Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor) - 2005

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …

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