Abstract
The Bayh–Doyle Act of 1980 accelerated academic entrepreneurship in universities. However, not all qualified researchers sought to be involved in patenting. We compared researchers’ human capital and their perceptions of resource availability on patent applications. We collected primary data from biomedical principal investigators from 15 universities using a validated questionnaire. Our results from logistic regression strongly suggest that human capital had a stronger influence than perceptions of resource availability for commercialization activities on patent applications. The policy implications are that universities should seek to enhance the stock of human capital most associated with patenting behaviors to improve academic entrepreneurial outcomes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-20 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Journal of Technology Transfer |
DOIs | |
State | Accepted/In press - Jan 19 2018 |
Keywords
- Human capital
- Organizational support
- Resource availability
- Self-efficacy
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business and International Management
- Accounting
- Engineering(all)