Which inventors do technology licensing officers favor for start-ups?
Which inventors do technology licensing officers favor for start-ups?
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技术许可官员对初创企业青睐哪些发明家？
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2012
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A. Romme
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S. Shane;S. Dolmans;Joseph Jankowski;I. Reymen;A. Romme
技术许可官员在影响大学发明商业化方面发挥着重要作用。由于美国大学教职员工和学生的发明权属于发明创造的机构，技术许可官员通过创建剥离公司来监管哪些发明被商业化。坊间证据表明，许可官员受到披露这些发明的发明人特点的影响。为了检验教职员工特征对许可官员对衍生公司创建的支持的影响，我们对美国88所卡内基一世研究型大学的239名技术许可官员进行了随机实验。我们的实验表明，许可官员对女性发明家的披露持负面态度，对易于合作的具有行业经验的华裔亚洲发明者(披露)持正面态度。我们讨论了这些发现对大学技术商业化的影响。
Technology licensing officers play an important role in influencing the commercialization of university inventions. Because the rights to inventions of faculty, staff and students at U.S. universities belong to the institutions where the inventions were made, technology licensing officers regulate which inventions are commercialized through the creation of spinoff companies. Anecdotal evidence indicates that licensing officers are influenced by the characteristics of the inventors who disclose those inventions. To examine the effect of faculty member characteristics on the support licensing officers give to spinoff company creation, we conducted a randomized experiment with 239 technology licensing officers at 88 Carnegie I research universities in the United States. Our experiment reveals that licensing officers are negatively disposed to (disclosures by) female inventors and positively disposed to (disclosures by) Chinese-named Asian inventors with industry experience who are easy to work with. We discuss the implications of these findings for university technology commercialization.