Does Inventor Ownership Encourage University Research-Derived Entrepreneurship? A Six University Comparison
Does Inventor Ownership Encourage University Research-Derived Entrepreneurship? A Six University Comparison
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发明人所有权是否会鼓励大学研究衍生的创业精神？
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2011
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D. Patton
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M. Kenney;D. Patton
本文考察了大学对其人员的发明的所有权是否最好地服务于鼓励技术商业化和企业家精神这一广泛持有的社会目标。利用手工收集的六所大学(其中一所是滑铁卢大学，也是北美唯一的发明家所有大学)基于技术的大学衍生产品的普查，我们比较了这些大学产生的衍生产品的数量和类型。我们发现具有启发性的证据表明，发明者所有权大学可以更有效地从每个教职员工和每个研发支出的角度产生衍生品。我们发现，计算机科学和电气工程领域产生的衍生产品比我们的其他两个类别--生物医学科学以及工程和物理科学--产生的副产品数量更多。总体而言，我们的结果表明，Inventor所有权可以极大地提高衍生产品的生产率。根据这些结果，我们建议寻求鼓励大学发明商业化和创业的政府应该试验发明人所有权制度。
This paper examines whether university ownership of inventions made by its personnel best serves the widely held social goals of encouraging technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. Using a hand-collected census of technology-based university spin-offs from six universities, one of which is the University of Waterloo and the only inventor ownership university in North America, we compare the number and type of spin-offs produced by these universities. We find suggestive evidence that inventor ownership universities can be more efficient in generating spin-offs on both per faculty and per R&D dollar expended perspective. We find that the field of computer sciences and electrical engineering generates a greater number of spin-offs than do our other two categories - the biomedical sciences, and the field of engineering and the physical sciences. In general, our results demonstrate that inventor ownership can be extremely productive of spin-offs. From these results, we suggest that governments seeking to encourage university invention commercialization and entrepreneurship should experiment with an inventor ownership system.