Public science and public innovation: Assessing the relationship between patenting at U.S. National Laboratories and the Bayh-Dole Act

Albert Link, Donald Siegel and David Van Fleet ()

Research Policy, 2011, vol. 40, issue 8, 1094-1099

Abstract: Most studies of the effects of the Bayh-Dole Act have focused on universities. In contrast, we analyze patenting activity at two prominent national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories and the National Institute of Standards and Technology before and after the enactment of this legislation and the Stevenson-Wydler Act. It appears as though the enactment of Bayh-Dole and the Stevenson-Wydler Act were not sufficient to induce an increase in patenting at these labs. However, the establishment of financial incentive systems, embodied in passage of the Federal Technology Transfer Act, as well as the allocation of internal resources to support technology transfer, stimulated an increase in such activity.

Keywords: U.S.; National; Laboratories; Patenting; Bayh-Dole; Act; Stevenson-Wydler; Act; Federal; Technology; Transfer; Act (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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