Patent Production at a European Research University: Exploratory Evidence at the Laboratory LevelJoaquín Azagra-Caro, Nicolas Carayol () and Patrick Llerena () The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2006, vol. 31, issue 2, pages 257-268 Abstract: Most studies of academic patenting focus on the university as the unit of analysis. In contrast, we examine this phenomenon at the laboratory level. Based on a sample of 83 research laboratories of Louis Pasteur University (ULP, Strasbourg, France) from 1993 to 2000, we constructed a panel data set that allows us to discriminate between patents that are owned by the university and those that are owned by firms and other organizations but invented by faculty members. We use these data to estimate a patent production function and find that university-owned patents are more responsive to specific public funding, while non-university-owned patents are more responsive to industrial funding. Our results also highlight the importance to control for disciplinary and institutional differences, since they significantly affect the production of the different kinds of ULP patents. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006 Keywords: university patent; European university; laboratory; contractual funding; O31; O32; O34; O38; O39 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kap:jtecht:v:31:y:2006:i:2:p:257-268 Access Statistics for this article The Journal of Technology Transfer is edited by Albert N. Link, Donald S. Siegel, Barry Bozeman and Mike Wright More articles in The Journal of Technology Transfer from Springer |
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