UNIVERSITIES AS A SOURCE OF COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGY - A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF UNIVERSITY PATENTING, 1965-1988

Authors
HENDERSON R JAFFE AB TRAJTENBERG M
Citation
R. Henderson et al., UNIVERSITIES AS A SOURCE OF COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGY - A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF UNIVERSITY PATENTING, 1965-1988, Review of economics and statistics, 80(1), 1998, pp. 119-127
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods",Economics
Journal title
Review of economics and statistics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00346535
Volume
80
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
119 - 127
Database
ISI
SICI code
0034-6535(1998)80:1<119:UAASOC>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
This paper explores the recent explosion in university patenting as a source of insight into the changing relationship between the universit y and the private sector. Before the mid-1980s, university patents wer e more highly cited, and were cited by more diverse patents, than a ra ndom sample of all patents. More recently several significant shifts i n university patenting behavior have led to the disappearance of this difference. Thus our results suggest that between 1965 and 1988 the ra te of increase of important patents from universities was much less th an their overall rate of increase of patenting.