Knowledge Creates Markets: The Influence of Entrepreneurial Support and Patent Rights on Academic Entrepreneurship

Dirk Czarnitzk (), Thorsten Doherr (), Paula Schliessler, Katrin Hussinger and Andrew Toole ()
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Dirk Czarnitzk: KU Leuven, Belgium
Thorsten Doherr: Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim
Andrew Toole: US Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, USA
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DEM Discussion Paper Series from Department of Economics at the University of Luxembourg

Abstract: We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge Creates Markets that set up new infrastructure to facilitate university-industry technology transfer and shifted the ownership of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that includes a control group not affected by the policy change, we find no evidence that the new infrastructure resulted in an increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship between patents on university-discovered inventions and university start-ups; however, it substantially decreased the volume of patents with the largest decrease taking place in faculty-firm patenting relationships.

Keywords: Intellectual property; patents; technology transfer; policy evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O34 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ent, nep-eur, nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-knm, nep-sbm and nep-tid
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