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Organizational and individual determinants of patent production of academic scientists and engineers in the United States
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posted on 2016-03-29, 00:00 authored by Wan-Ling Huang, Mary K Feeney, Eric W. WelchThis article contributes to an important literature on the determinants of academic patenting. We
develop and test a model that predicts how individual characteristics and organizational factors affect
individual patenting production. The analysis uses zero-inflated negative binomial regression on data
from a 2010 national survey of 1,379 US-based university scientists and engineers, 624 of which hold
no patents assigned to their current university. Findings from this research generally support our
hypotheses that individual and organizational factors are associated with individual patent production.
We find that while university patent policy and university technology transfer offices may be important
for encouraging or discouraging scientists to patent the first time, department incentives and individual
preferences and characteristics predict the number of patents that faculty produce. This research
supports prior literature and develops new perspectives on how universities and policy-makers can
understand and shape how individual and organizational constraints and incentives affect patent
productivity.
Funding
US National Science Foundation (Grant # SES-0750613; PI: Dr Eric Welch).
History
Publisher Statement
This is a copy of an article accepted for publication in Science and Public Policy. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Huang WL, Feeney MK, Welch EW. Organizational and individual determinants of patent production of academic scientists and engineers in the United States. Science and Public Policy. 2011;38(6):463-479. is available online at:http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oup/sppPublisher
Oxford University PressLanguage
- en_US