Publication detail

Recent trends of technology transfer in US universities with comparison to those following Bayh-Dole Act

TSENG, A. RAUDENSKÝ, M.

English title

Recent trends of technology transfer in US universities with comparison to those following Bayh-Dole Act

Type

Peer-reviewed article not indexed in WoS or Scopus

Language

en

Original abstract

Patents and licenses are foundational to successful technology transfer. In this article, the activities and performance of university patenting and licensing are studied to gauge the effectiveness of the Bayh-Dole Act (the Act), the most influential piece of US legislation on UTT. Based on raw data from five sources, the annual numbers of patents granted, licenses signed, and startup companies launched are analysed. Correlations are performed for all data presented to quantify trends over different time periods. We found that patenting and licensing activities in US universities slowed down greatly after 2000 and remained flat until the period from 2010 to 2012, when activities recover to the level of strength characterising the period before 2000 and after the enactment of the Act. We explain some of the differences found among different data sources and time periods.

Keywords in English

Bayh-Dole Act; commercialisation; innovation; license; patent; startup; technology transfer; university.

Released

2014-08-06

Publisher

Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Location

UK

ISSN

1470-6075

Journal

International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation

Volume

12

Number

1/2/3

Pages from–to

139–156

Pages count

18

BIBTEX


@article{BUT108597,
  author="Ampere An-Pei {Tseng} and Miroslav {Raudenský}",
  title="Recent trends of technology transfer in US universities with comparison to those following Bayh-Dole Act",
  journal="International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation",
  year="2014",
  volume="12",
  number="1/2/3",
  pages="139--156",
  doi="10.1504/IJTTC.2013.064156",
  issn="1470-6075"
}