sector. Academic inventions are identified via patent applications of German academic scientists. We find that academic …

patent applications filed by 64 Italian universities between1965 and 2002 are used to address the central research question …. According tothe data, the number of Italian university patent applications rosesubstantially between 1996 and 2006. Another key … university createsits own patent regulation, there is a 9 percent increase in the likelihood thatuniversities without an internal …

empirical analysisconsists of a complete set of 637 patent applications filed at the ItalianPatent and Trademark Office (UIBM …), the European patent Office (EPO), the U.S.Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), or data submitted to a Patent … Italian university patent applications rose in the previous 10years; (2) patenting activities almost tripled in universities …