Do individual factors matter? A survey of scientists’ patenting in Portuguese public research organisations

Industry and Innovation

Maraut

2013

We rely on a novel database of Spanish author-inventors to explore the relationship between the past patenting experience of academic authors and the scientific impact (citations received and journal prestige) of scientific articles published during [2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008] in journals listed in SCOPUS. We also study how such a relationship is affected by differences across academic affiliations, distinguishing between public universities and different types of non-university public research organisations. Our econometric estimations show that scientific impact is positively associated with having authors with past patenting experience as inventors at the European Patent Office. Exceptions are the articles of authors affiliated to new independent public research centres, not tied to the civil service model and oriented to do research that is both excellent and use-inspired. These are also on average the most cited articles.

Section: Background: Spanish Public Research Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Academic Inventors, Scientific Impact and the Institutionalisation of Pasteur's Quadrant in Spain

Martínez

Industry and Innovation

Maraut

2013

“…Cesaroni and Piccaluga 2005;Potì and Reale 2005;Bach and Llerena 2007;Moutinho et al 2007). Some include patenting as a predictor of other phenomena, like publication output (Buenstorf 2009), academic entrepreneurship (Krabel and Mueller 2009) and technology transfer (Grimpe and Fier 2010).…”

Section: Differences Between the Determinants Of University And Pro Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of national patent ownership by public research organisations and universities

2013

J Technol Transf

This paper focuses on the question of whether the national production functions of patents owned by universities and public research organisations (PROs) differ. We use Eurostat patent and R&D data broken down by institutional sector for the European Union 27 and other countries in years 1982-2007, and we estimate dynamic panel models. The impact of R&D expenditure on patent ownership is higher for PROs than for universities. University patent ownership activity is dependent on business funding, while PRO patent ownership is not. We recommend a reversal of the current decline of PRO R&D expenditure and discuss whether PROs perform better at macroeconomic level vis a vis universities.

“…The issue of technology ownership by PROs is also important, because these PROs are under the same sorts of funding pressures as universities (Laudel, 2006;Sanz-Menendez and Cruz-Castro, 2003). Furthermore, the promotion of technology ownership at PROs is subject to similar regulatory changes such as deciding between the researcher or the institution's privilege (Potì and Reale, 2005) and may encounter similar obstacles due to lack of individual rewards for scientists (Moutinho et al, 2007).…”

Section: Some Theoretical Considerations and Further Research Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, some studies show a causality link between previous industry contacts and technology ownership at PROs (Moutinho et al, 2007) or complementarities with publication (Potì and Reale, 2005). …”

Section: Csic-invented Patentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do public research organisations own most patents invented by their staff?

2011

Sci. and Pub. Pol.

Technology ownership and knowledge transfer aim at the dissemination of public research results usually in one direction -from the university or public research organisation (PRO) that produced the results. However, the complementarities between these types of instruments are not clear compared to the bidirectional channels of knowledge exchange. We analyse one PRO in Spain, a country that is peculiar in terms of infrequent changes to the legislations on science and patents and a predominance of PRO-owned over PRO-invented patents, similar to the situation in the USA but different from that in most EU member states. Against this background, knowledge transfer (measured through PRO-invented patents) increases faster than