Jacobsson, Staffan; Lindholm-Dahlstrand, Åsa; Elg, Lennart - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 4, pp. 874-885
There is a widespread belief that EU underperforms in the commercialization of publicly funded research and that the appropriate policy response is to transfer the ownership of intellectual property rights to Universities. This paper assesses the validity of these twin beliefs. In addressing the...