Inventing and patenting activities of scientists: in the expectation of money or reputation?
By Devrim Göktepe-Hultén, Prashanth Mahagaonkar. 2010
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We propose that scientists use patents/invention disclosures as signals to gain reputation than financial benefits. Based on a newly created dataset on the commercial activities among 2,500 scientists affiliated with 67 institutes of the German Max Planck Society, we explore the relation between the expectations of scientists concerning the outcomes of commercial activities and the likelihood of their patenting and disclosure behaviors. We find that expectation of gaining financial benefits are not related with the patenting activities of scientists without industrial cooperation. Instead, their expectation to gain/increase reputation through commercial activities is correlated with their patenting and disclosures activities. This may in turn also increase the possibility to gain academic promotion, financial benefits through industrial collaboration etc., rather than the immediate personal financial gains.
Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Statistics and Probability
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Citations in the corpus
- Why do academics engage with industry? The entrepreneurial university and individual motivations (2009, background): “A study of German academic researchers demonstrated that researchers engage in patenting not for personal profit but to signal their achievements and gain reputation amongst their academic and industry-related communities (Göktepe-Hulten and Mahagaonkar 2009).”
- Models and Methods of University Technology Transfer (2013, unknown): “The traditional academic career trajectory encourages and rewards the production of new scientific knowledge, making university scientists surrounded by such culture less likely to commercialize their knowledge (Baycan and Stough, 2012a; G¨oktepe-Hulten and Mahagaonkar, 2010).”