This chapter suggests that, while researchers and teachers of university technology transfer often think exclusively in terms of patents and the Bayh-Dole Act, we ought to adopt a more nuanced view of intellectual property rights (IPRs). In the text, I discuss the primary non-patent types of...

The legal, economic, and policy environmentsthat comprise the system of innovation affect university knowledge productionand, consequently, the rate of technological change. These influences onknowledge transfer are identified and discussed. To understand the role of universities in creating and...