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Publication and patent behaviour of academic researchers: Conflicting, reinforcing or merely coexisting?
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posted on 2023-06-08, 10:25 authored by Bart Van Looy, Julie Callaert, Koenraad DebackereIncreasing entrepreneurial activity within academia has raised concerns that the number of publications added to the scientific commons might be reduced or that academic research would be directed exclusively towards the application-oriented needs of industry. In the case of academic inventions, the potential conflict between public- and private-oriented considerations seems most salient. In this contribution, we examine whether the publication behavior of academic inventors (at K.U. Leuven) differs from their colleagues (non-inventors) working within similar fields of research. Our analysis reveals that inventors publish significantly more. Moreover, no empirical evidence was found for the ‘skewing problem’. These findings not only suggest the co-existence of both activities; they may actually reinforce each other.
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Research PolicyISSN
0048-7333Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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4Volume
35Page range
596-608Pages
12.0Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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2012-02-20Usage metrics
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