Testing the causal relationship between academic patenting and scientific publishing in Germany: Crowding-out or reinforcement?

Heike Grimm () and Johannes Jaenicke ()
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The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2015, vol. 40, issue 3, 512-535

Abstract: The paper investigates the intertemporal spillover effects from patenting to future publishing activities and vice versa among university employees with a country focus on the German Laender Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia. Individual data from university patentees who successfully issued a patent at a public university before and after 2005 from the selected German Laender is used for measuring the Granger-causal effects between both activities. The interaction of personal and institutional characteristics of academic patentees is taken into account. By using Granger-causality tests in a dynamic panel model, we test the overall effect as well as group or Laender specific effects. Our findings show that there is a positive feedback relationship between patenting and publishing activities. An increase in patent applications results in higher numbers of future publications; reciprocally, an increase of publications contributes to a higher output of future patent applications. Additionally, we find interrelations of the research output with seniority, academic degree of the scientists and non-university work experience. The paper further presents findings about motives, skills and experience of so-called star scientists and other academic inventors. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Academic patenting; Scientific publishing; Academic entrepreneurship; Academic policy; Star scientists; Germany; Granger-causality; O31; I23; C33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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