Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Lawson Cornelia
Author-Email: cornelia.meissner@unito.it
Author-Name: Sterzi Valerio
Author-Email: valerio.sterzi@u-bordeaux4.fr
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: The role of early career factors in academic patenting
Abstract: This paper explores the characteristics of persistent academic inventors and how they are
influenced by their personal attributes, PhD institution, and first invention. Using a novel
dataset on 555 UK academic inventors, we find that the quality of the first invention is the best
predictor for subsequent participation in the patenting process. We further find evidence for a
positive training effect whereby researchers that were trained at universities that had already
established commercialisation units have a higher propensity to patent persistently. In addition,
researchers that gained first patenting experience in industry are able to benefit from stronger
knowledge flows and receive more citations than their purely academic peers.
Length: 32 pages
Creation-Date: 2012-01
File-URL:  http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati_wp/wp2012dip_l_b/1_wp_momigliano.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:labeco:201201