Institutional Change and Academic Patenting: French Universities and the Innovation Act of the 1999

Antonio Della Malva, Francesco Lissoni and Patrick Llerena

No 29, KITeS Working Papers from KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and Technology Studies, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy

Abstract: The Innovation Act was introduced by the French government in 1999, with the aim of encouraging academic institutions to protect and commercialize their scientists’ inventions. We explore the effects of the Act on the distribution of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) over academic scientists’ inventions. We find that before the Act, academic institutions had a strong tendency to leave such IPRs in the hands of their main funders, namely public research organizations (such as CNRS or INSERM), and business companies. After the introduction of the Act, French academic institutions have increased their propensity to claim IPRs over their employees’ invention, mainly under the form of co-ownership with business companies. This result vary with the technological class of the patent, the presence and age of a TTO within the university, and the university size and type.

Keywords: academic inventions; academic research; intellectual property; patents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L31 O31 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2010-01, Revised 2010-01
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