The protection of the inventions across patents in european, japanese and american universities
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18-09-2018
María de los Ángeles Quintás Corredoir
Gloria Caballero Fernández
Raquel Arévalo Tomé
Pilar Piñeiro García
Abstract
In the last years an increasing trend has taken place in the universities of the whole world to protecting their inventions across rights of patents. This fact reflects the major usefulness of the university investigation and the intention of transferring these results to the industry. In this work we study the patents that have applied, across the European route, the Japanese, American and European universities, in order to establish a comparative analysis among them. We analyze the level of applications that they present, the technological areas and the extension of the protection of these patents and the ranking of the universities that more patents applied and of the companies that collaborate with these universities.
How to Cite
Quintás Corredoir, M. de los Ángeles, Caballero Fernández, G., Arévalo Tomé, R., & Piñeiro García, P. (2018). The protection of the inventions across patents in european, japanese and american universities. Cuadernos De Gestión, 12(1), 15–38. https://doi.org/10.5295/cdg.100205mq
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Keywords
University, Patents, USA, Japan and Europe
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ARCHIBUGI, D. y PIANTA, M. (1996): “Innovation surveys and patents as technology indicators: the state of the art”, en OCDE (ed.), Innovation, patents and technological strategies, pp. 17-56.
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AZAGRA-CARO J.; CARAYOL, N. y LLERENA, P. (2006): “Patent production at a European research university: exploratory evidence at the laboratory level”, Journal of Technology Transfer, Vol. 31, Nº 3, pp. 257-268.
AZAGRA-CARO, J.; ARCHONTAKIS, F; GUTIERREZ-GARCÍA, A. y FERNANDEZ-DE-LUCIO, I. (2006): “Faculty support for the objectives of university-industry relations versus degree of R&D cooperation: The importance of regional absorptive capacity”, Research Policy, Vol. 35, pp. 37-55.
BALDINI, N. (2006): “University patenting and licensing activity: a review of the literature”, Research Evaluation, Vol. 15, Nº 3, pp. 197-207.
BALDINI, N. (2009): “Implementing Bayh-Dole-like laws: faculty problems and their impact on university patenting activity”, Research Policy, Vol. 38, pp. 1217-1224.
BALDINI, N. (2010): “Do royalties really foster university patenting activity? An answer from Italy”, Technovation, Vol. 30, pp. 109-116
BONACCORSI, A. y THOMA, G. (2007): “Institutional complementarity and inventive performance in nano science and technology”, Research Policy, Vol. 36, pp. 813-831.
BAS, C. L. y SIERRA, C. (2002): “Location versus home country advantages in R&D activities: some results on multinationals locational strategies”, Research Policy, Vol. 31, pp. 589-609.
BASBERG, L. (1983): “Foreign patenting in the US as a technology indicator: the case of Norway”, Research Policy, Vol. 12, pp. 227-237.
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COLLINS, S. y WAKOH, H. (2000): “Universities and technology transfer in Japan: recent reforms in historical perspective”, Journal of Technology Transfer, Vol. 2, pp. 213-222.
DESROCHERS, P. (1998): “On the abuse of patents as economic indicators”, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Vol. 1, Nº 4, pp. 51-74.
ETZKOWITZ, H. y LEYDESDORFF, L. (1996): “Emergence of a triple helix of university–industry–government relations”, Science and Public Policy, Vol. 23, pp. 279–286.
ETZKOWITZ, H. y LEYDESDORFF, L. (1997): Universities and the global knowledge economy: A triple helix of university–industry–government relations. Cassell Academic, London.
ETZKOWITZ, H. y LEYDESDORFF, L. (2000): “The dynamics of innovation: from national systems and “Mode 2” to a triple helix of university–industry–government relations”, Research Policy, Vol. 29, pp. 109–123.
ETZKOWITZ, H.; WEBSTER, A.; GEBHARDT, C. y CANTISANO, B. R. (2000): “The future of the university and the university of the future: Evolution of ivory tower to entrepreneurial paradigm”, Research Policy, Vol. 29, pp. 313–330.
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FREEMAN, C. (1987): Technology policy and economic performance: lessons from Japan, Pinter, London.
FUJISUE, K. (1998): “Promotion of academia-industry cooperation in Japan: establishing the law of promoting technology transfer from university to industry in Japan”, Technovation, Vol. 18, Nº 6/7, pp. 371-381.
GODIN, B. y GINGRAS, Y. (2000): “The place of universities in the system of knowledge production”, Research Policy, Vol. 29, pp. 273-278.
GIBBONS, M.; LIMOGES, C.; NOWOTNY, H.; SCHWARTZMAN, S.; SCOOT, P. y TROW, M., (1994): The new production of knowledge, Sage Publications.
GRILICHES, Z. (1990): “Patent statistics as economic indicators: a survey”, Journal of Economic Literature, December, pp. 1661-1707.
GRUPP, H. y SCHMOCH, U., (1999): “Patent statistics in the age of globalisation: new legal procedures, new analytical methods, new economic interpretation”, Research Policy, Vol. 32, Nº 3/4, pp. 225-245.
HICKS, D. (1993): “University-industry research links in Japan”, Policy Sciences, Nº 26, pp. 361-395.
HOWELLS, J. y MCKINLAY, C. (1999): Commercialization of university research in Europe, Report to the Advisory Council on Science and Technology, Ontario, Canada.
LEYDESDORFF, L. (2000): “The triple helix: An evolutionary model of innovations”, Research Policy, Vol. 29, pp. 243–255.
LEYDESDORFF, L. y SUN, Y. (2009): “National and international dimensions of the Triple Helix in Japan: University-industry-government versus international coauthorship relations”, Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Vol. 60, Nº 4, pp. 778-788.
LUNDVALL, B. A. (1988): “Innovation as an interactive process: from user–producer interaction to the national system of innovation”, en Dosi, G., Freeman, C., Nelson, R., Silverberg, G. y Soete, L. (Eds.), Technical change and economic theory, Pinter London, pp. 349-269.
MAGAZINER, I.C. y REICH, R.B. (1982): Minding America´s business: The decline and the rise of the American economy, Vintage Books, New York.
MANCUSI, M. L. (2000): “International technological specialisation in industrial countries: patterns and dynamics” Working Paper CERPRI, Nº 118, pp. 1-46, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation.
MANCUSI, M. L. (2001): “Geographical concentration and the dynamics of countries´ specialization in technologies”, Working Paper CERPRI, Nº 125, pp. 1-31, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation.
MEYER, M. (2006): “Are patenting scintifics the better scholars? An exploratory comparison of inventor-authors with their non-inventing peers in nano-science and technology”, Research Policy, Vol. 35, pp. 1646-1662.
MOWERY, D.; NELSON, E.; SAMPAT, B. y ZIEDONIS, A. (2001): “The growth of patenting and licensing by U.S. universities”, Research Policy, Vol. 30, pp. 99–119.
OCDE (1994): The measurement of scientific and technological activities using patent data as science and technology indicators: patent manual, OCDE, París.
OST (Observatoire Des Sciences et des Techniques) (1998): Science et technologie: indicateurs, Economica, Paris.
OWEN-SMITH, J.; RICCABONI, M.; PAMMOLLI, F. y POWELL, W. (2002): “A comparison of US and European university-industry relations in the life sciences”, Management Science, Vol. 48, Nº 1, pp. 24-43.
PATEL, P. y PAVITT, K. (1991): “Large firms in the production of the world’s technology: an important case of non globalisation”, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 22, Nº 1, pp. 1-21.
PAVITT, K. (1985): “Patent statistics as indicators of innovative activities: possibilities and problems”, Scientometrics, Vol. 7, Nº 1-2, pp. 77-99.
PAVITT, K. (1997): “Do patents reflect the useful research output of universities?”, Science Policy Research Unit, Electronic Working Paper Series, paper Nº 6.
PÉREZ, F. (2004): “Las universidades en la sociedad del conocimiento: la financiación de la enseñanza superior y la investigación”, en Información Académica, productiva y financiera de las Universidades Españolas: Indicadores universitarios (año 2004), Observatorio Universitario de la CRUE, pp. 43-61.
PETERSON, J. y SHARP, M. (1998): Technology policy in the European Union, Macmillan, Basingstoke.
RAHM, D.; KIRKLAND, J. y BOZEMAN, B. (2000): University-industry R&D collaboration in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.
ROSELL, C. y AGRAWAL A. (2009): “Have university knowledge flows narrowed? Evidence from patent data”, Research Policy, Vol. 38, pp. 1-13.
SAAD, M. y ZAWDIE, G. (2008): “Triple helix in developing countries – issues and challenges”, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, Vol. 20, Nº 6, pp. 649-652.
SANDELIN, J. (2005): “Japan’s industry-academic-government collaboration and technology transfer practices: a comparison with United States practices”, Journal of Industry-Academia-Government, Vol. 1, Nº 3, pp. 1-4.
SAMPAT, B.N. (2006): “Patenting and US academic research in the 20th century: the world before and after Bayh-Dole”, Research Policy, Vol. 35, pp. 772-789.
SPENCER, J.W. (2001): “How relevant is university-based scientific research to private high-technology firms? A United States-Japan comparison”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 44, Nº 2, pp. 432-440.
TASEY, G. (1998): “Comparisons of US and japanase R&D policies”, Japan Information Access Project, Special Reports. http://www.nmjc.org/jiap/specrpts/reports/sp3_1998.html March 1998.
TAMADA, S.; NAITO, Y.; KOMADA, F.; GEMBA, K. y SUZUKI, J. (2006): “Significant difference of dependence upon scientific knowledge among different technologies”, Scientometrics, Vol. 68, Nº 2, pp. 289-302.
THURSBY, J.; FULLER, A. W. y THURSBY M. (2009): “US faculty patenting: inside and outside the university”, Research Policy, Vol. 38, pp. 14-25.
YAMAMOTO, S. (1997): “The Role of the Japanese higher education system in relation to industry”, en A. Goto y H. Odagiri (Eds.), Innovation in Japan, Oxford University Press, England, pp. 294-307.
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