Ahmad Barirani, Catherine Beaudry
and Bruno Agard
Article (2017)
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Abstract
The lack of control over downstream assets can hinder universities' ability to extract rents from their inventive activities. We explore this possibility by assessing the relationship between invention generality and renewal decisions for a sample of Canadian nanotechnology patents. Our results show that general purpose inventions enjoy a longer legal life. Although private sector organizations renew their patents at a higher rate than universities, the gap between the two sectors decreases as invention generality increases. However, there is little indication that the most general purpose inventions owned by universities survive for longer than the ones owned by private sector organizations.
Uncontrolled Keywords
university-industry linkages; general purpose technologies; nanotechnology; technology transfer; markets for technology; complementary assets
| Subjects: |
1600 Industrial engineering > 1600 Industrial engineering 1600 Industrial engineering > 1601 Operations research and management science 2700 Information technology > 2700 Information technology |
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| Department: | Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering |
| Funders: | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) |
| Grant number: | CIHR-KRS-94306 |
| PolyPublie URL: | https://publications.polymtl.ca/37484/ |
| Journal Title: | Technological Forecasting and Social Change (vol. 120) |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.01.021 |
| Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.01.021 |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2023 15:04 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2025 01:01 |
| Cite in APA 7: | Barirani, A., Beaudry, C., & Agard, B. (2017). Can universities profit from general purpose inventions? The case of Canadian nanotechnology patents. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 120, 271-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.01.021 |
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