Few papers address the issue of faculty motivations to patent, and none comprehensively investigates why faculty decide … not to patent. To fill this gap, I surveyed Italian faculty inventors of university-owned patents (N = 208), and … noninventors working in the same disciplines (N = 416). Major motivations to patent are prestige/reputation and knowledge exchange …

inventors, the technological profiles of firms and patent value. In particular, this paper focuses on the value of academic … patent belongs to a core or non-core technology relative to the firm's technological profile neutralizes the premium of non … industrial invention …

subsequent commercialization or termination of the licenses to these inventions as a function of the length of patent protection …, we find two opposing effects of time. The length of patent protection provides an incentive for the firm to invest that … by Lerner's index of patent scope and effectiveness of patents in a line of business, decrease the hazard of termination …

Foundation (NSF), patents issued by the United States Patent Office (USPTO) to U.S. academic institutions more than doubled from …

participate in the secondary market for patents. We document 220 assignments, involving a total of 544 U.S. patent assets, that … appear to represent arms-length patent sales by universities (or other nonprofit research institutes) during the period 2012 … are almost entirely absent from the market. We also find that few academic U.S. patent sales bear the hallmarks of …