THE IMPACT OF ACADEMIC PATENTING ON THE RATE, QUALITY AND DIRECTION OF (PUBLIC) RESEARCH OUTPUT
THE IMPACT OF ACADEMIC PATENTING ON THE RATE, QUALITY AND DIRECTION OF (PUBLIC) RESEARCH OUTPUT
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-6451.2009.00395.x
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发表时间：
2009-12-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Stuart, Toby
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作者：
Azoulay, Pierre;Ding, Waverly;Stuart, Toby
我们在由 3,862 名学术生命科学家组成的小组数据集中研究了教师专利申请对公共研究成果的比率、质量和内容的影响。使用处理权重逆概率（IPTW）来解释专利申请的自我选择，我们发现专利申请对出版物的比率有积极的影响，但对这些出版物的质量有微弱的积极影响。我们还发现，专利申请者可能正在将研究重点转向商业利益问题。我们的结论是，学术界经常表达的关于专利申请会对公共研究成果产生不良影响的担忧是错误的。
We examine the influence of faculty patenting on the rate, quality, and content of public research outputs in a panel dataset of 3,862 academic life scientists. Using inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTW) to account for self-selection into patenting, we find that patenting has a positive effect on the rate of publications and a weak positive effect on the quality of these publications. We also find that patenters may be shifting their research focus to questions of commercial interest. We conclude that the often voiced concern that patenting in academe has a nefarious effect on public research output is misplaced.