Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Lissoni, Francesco
Author-Email:francesco.lissoni@unibocconi.it  
Author-Name: Montobbio, Fabio
Author-Email: fabio.montobbio@unito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: The ownership of academic patents and their impact. Evidence from five European countries
Abstract:This paper compares the value and impact of academic patents in five different European countries with 
different institutional frameworks: Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Ownership patterns of 
academic patents are found to: (i) differ greatly across country, due to a combination of legal norms on IP and 
institutional features of the university system; (ii) be strongly associated to academic patents' value, as 
measured by patent citations. Company-owned academic patents tend to be as cited as non-academic ones, while 
university-owned tend to be less cited. Academic patents in the Netherlands are more cited than non-academic 
ones, irrespective to their ownership, while university-owned patents get fewer citations in both France and Italy.
We propose an explanation of these results based on the different autonomy and experience in dealing with IP and 
technology transfer enjoyed by universities in the countries considered. We also find that company-owned academic 
patents in Sweden get many fewer citations than non-academic. Individually-owned academic patents are more cited 
than non-academic patents similarly owned by their inventors. 
Length: 28 pages
Creation-Date: 2012-12
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati_wp/wp2012dip_l_b/20_wp_momigliano.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:uto:labeco:201220