University-owned and university-invented patents: a network analysis on two Italian universities

Saveria Capellari and Domenico Stefano ()
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Saveria Capellari: University of Trieste
Domenico Stefano: University of Trieste

Scientometrics, 2014, vol. 99, issue 2, No 6, 313-329

Abstract: Abstract The paper presents results from social network analysis applied to data on patenting of academics inventors employed in two Italian universities (Trieste University and Udine university, both located in Friuli Venezia Giulia region). The aim is to compare the co-invention networks generated by the academic inventors, tenured by one of the two universities, in their patenting activity with several organisations—firms, public research organisations—and in their activity for patents owned by one of the two universities. Results show that, despite the structural similarity, non-marginal differences emerge in the interaction of the two forms of patenting across the two universities. Empirical evidence suggests new research questions related in particular to the role played by the differing university patenting strategies in shaping local networks.

Keywords: Academic patenting; Science-industry linkages; Social network analysis; Blockmodeling; Brokerage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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