The influence of human capital and perceived university support on patent applications of biomedical investigators

Supriya Munshaw (), Soo-Hoon Lee (), Phillip Phan and Kieren A. Marr ()
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Supriya Munshaw: Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Soo-Hoon Lee: Old Dominion University
Kieren A. Marr: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2019, vol. 44, issue 4, No 8, 1216-1235

Abstract: Abstract The Bayh–Doyle Act of 1980 accelerated academic entrepreneurship in universities. However, not all qualified researchers sought to be involved in patenting. We compared researchers’ human capital and their perceptions of resource availability on patent applications. We collected primary data from biomedical principal investigators from 15 universities using a validated questionnaire. Our results from logistic regression strongly suggest that human capital had a stronger influence than perceptions of resource availability for commercialization activities on patent applications. The policy implications are that universities should seek to enhance the stock of human capital most associated with patenting behaviors to improve academic entrepreneurial outcomes.

Keywords: Human capital; Self-efficacy; Organizational support; Resource availability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 L65 O31 O32 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s10961-018-9649-5

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