Academic Inventors, Technological Profiles and Patent Value: An Analysis of Academic Patents Owned by Swedish-Based Firms

Universities and public research institutes as collaboration partners for firms

“…This suggests that the occurrence of useful impulses to further R&D in practise often is linked to the achievement of objectives related to ongoing R&D projects of the firm (Broström, 2014). The observation that long-term R&D objectives are a key driver of firm-PRO relationships also fits well with results from recent research about Sweden which suggests that firms engage universities in projects that consolidate the firm's technological project (Ljungberg and McKelvey 2012;Ljungberg et al 2013). Table 2 shows that the same factors drive both types of collaborations, as evident by the estimation of a probit model, namely firm size and conducting R&D. The results indicate that our data replicate previous findings about the impact of firm size and R&D intensity (here proxied by dummies for patent application and for the sector registered as R&D performing) reported to influence the propensity to interact with universities in previous studies (Laursen & Salter, 2004 Comparing predicted values and observed values, we find that 70 % of all predictions of university collaboration are correct, in the sense that a non-collaborator is assigned a prediction of less than 50% probability to interact and collaborators are assigned a prediction of over 50 %.…”

What is the causal effect of R&D on patenting activity in a “professor’s privilege” country? Evidence from Sweden

“…The large-scale collection efforts by Lissoni and associates in the previous KEINS-project and the APE-INV project for European countries used university staff lists as the starting point, and then tried to find inventors on those staff lists. 4 This is also the process followed by earlier Swedish studies on academic patenting (Göktepe 2008;Ljungberg et al 2013). There is already some evidence that Swedish academic patenting is high.…”

Do company-owned academic patents influence firm performance? Evidence from the Italian industry

“…The question regarding the relative value of academic patents owned by firms remains partially unanswered (Geuna and Rossi 2011;Lissoni 2012). Despite the limited evidence, a recent stream of literature has explored the relative value of academic patents versus nonacademic patents owned by the same firm (Ljungberg et al 2013). Notably, these studies have focused on the value of firm-owned academic patents compared with corporate patents (Czarnitzki et al 2011) and on the relationship between ownership of academic patents and their value (Crespi et al 2010;Czarnitzki et al 2011Czarnitzki et al , 2012Sterzi 2013).…”