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Inspired by: ERA dimensions » R&D policies associated with the objective of "encouraging performance" will not highly increase the university-owned patents

version: 3 / updated: 2011-02-25
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Originally submitted by: Omid Omidvar
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European Research Area (ERA) dimensions

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Research Institutions

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R&D policies associated with the objective of "encouraging performance" will not highly increase the university-owned patents

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Please describe the Weak Signal (approx. 150 words)
Policy metrics often depend on policy objectives. In the EU, there is a diversity of policy objectives regarding the role of university patents and university-industry cooperation: ‘effective knowledge sharing’, ‘strengthening research institutions’ and two of the sub-objectives lying behind ‘strengthening research institutions’ – ‘coping with diversification of funding’ and ‘encouraging performance’. Hence, policy makers are increasingly using a broad range of metrics and there has been much debate about what metrics to be included: number of university-owned patents, licensing income, contract incomes, consultancy incomes, etc. According to the results at aggregate level, the more R&D policy supports the objective of ‘coping with diversification of funding’, the more university patent ownership will increase but the more R&D policy supports the objective of ‘encouraging performance’, the less university patent ownership will increase.

Keywords

R&D objectives, R&D metrics, Universities, Diversification of funding, Performance