Bound Volume Number
XI
Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-5-2015
Capstone Advisor
Prof. Will Geoghegan
Honors Reader
Prof. Donald Cardarelli
Capstone Major
Management
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
no
Honors Categories
Social Sciences
Subject Categories
Management Information Systems
Abstract
Technology transfer is the process by which universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs) channel discovered knowledge and innovations into commercialization. Increasing commercialization has been a feature of HEIs in the United States, especially, for the last several decades. A turning point can be seen with the passage of what is known as the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980. This landmark piece of legislation allowed universities to keep licensing rights from federally funded projects, an institutional ownership model that spurred innovation. HEIs with medical schools are especially affected due to the lucrative nature of biotechnology.
One such measure of innovation and, crucially, commercialization is the number of patents filed per institution. As such, patent data has been obtained for a sample of HEIs in New York State, Ireland, and New Zealand. For benchmarking activity levels, data has also been compiled on the volume of journal publications from each school. Using the statistical software Minitab to analyze these data sets, this paper finds (1) evidence of a significant acceleration in patenting activity after Bayh-Dole, and (2) that increased patenting rates may be causing deceleration in publishing activities at HEIs with medical schools.
Recommended Citation
Rothschild, Ethan M., "Technology Transfer and the Instrumentality of Bayh-Dole: a Comparative Study of Patent and Publishing Data, 1973-2007" (2015). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 916.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/916
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