Diamanto Politis

Professor, Centrumföreståndare Sten K Johnson Centrum för Entreprenörskap

Categorization and analysis of academic patents: Developing a framework to examine differences in technology, opportunity and commercializaton characteristics

Författare

Jonas Gabrielsson
Diamanto Politis
Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand

Redaktör

Donald Siegel
Andrew Corbett
Jerome Katz

Summary, in English

There has been a significant rise in the number of patents originating from academic environments. However, current conceptualizations of academic patents provide a largely homogenous approach to define this entrepreneurial form of technology transfer. In this study we develop a novel categorization framework that identifies three subsets of academic patents which are conceptually distinct from each other. By applying the categorization framework on a unique database of Swedish patents we furthermore find support for its usefulness in detecting underlying differences in technology, opportunity, and commercialization characteristics among the three subsets of academic patents.

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