Leila Tahmooresnejad and Catherine Beaudry
Article (2018)
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Abstract
This paper assesses the extent to which patent renewal data is associated with government funding in a university context by focusing on the relationship between the funded patentees and renewal decisions of their patents. The aim of this paper is to show whether receiving funding from government contributes to high-value patents as measured by the patent renewal decisions made by their owners. Our observations of academic nanotechnology patents in Canada discovered a positive relationship between funded researchers and the rate of patent renewal after 4 years. Further analysis is also undertaken into the relative impact on patent renewal after 8 years and 12 years. Our results suggest that the length of patent renewal in numbers of years can be related to levels of government funding received by their inventors.
Uncontrolled Keywords
Biomedical Research/*economics/trends; Biotechnology/economics/*trends; Canada/epidemiology; Economics; Government Programs/economics/*trends; Humans; Intellectual Property; Nanotechnology/*trends; Patents as Topic; Universities
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1600 Industrial engineering > 1600 Industrial engineering 7000 Other studies in natural sciences and engineering > 7000 Other studies in natural sciences and engineering |
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Department: | Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering |
Funders: | Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
PolyPublie URL: | https://publications.polymtl.ca/5146/ |
Journal Title: | PLOS One (vol. 13, no. 8) |
Publisher: | PLOS |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0202643 |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202643 |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2022 15:47 |
Last Modified: | 27 Sep 2024 11:58 |
Cite in APA 7: | Tahmooresnejad, L., & Beaudry, C. (2018). Do patents of academic funded researchers enjoy a longer life? A study of patent renewal decisions. PLOS One, 13(8), e0202643 (22 pages). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202643 |
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