TY - JOUR
AU - Baldini, Nicola
AB - Jointly published by Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest Scientometrics, Vol. 69, No. 2 (2006) 387–407 and Springer, Dordrecht The Act on inventions at public research institutions: Danish universities’ patenting activity NICOLA BALDINI Department of Management, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy) This paper focuses on the Danish Act No. 347 of 1999, which granted IPRs on inventions at public research institutions to the institutions themselves. After summarizing the situation in Denmark prior to the new law, I describe the Act’s main features and then I turn my attention to the solutions adopted by Danish academia to face the opportunities and challenges posed by the new situation. Finally, using a unique dataset including all patents filed by Danish universities from 1982 to 2003, I describe university patenting activity. Introduction Universities have since long be seen as organizations devoted to the creation and public dissemination of knowledge (BUSH, 1945). In the recent years, the relevance of academic research to the needs of the society has been increasingly challenged: while there is general agreement about the universities’ role for their countries’ economic and scientific growth (MANSFIELD, 1991; ROSENBERG & NELSON, 1994), a stronger interest has been expressed for proper follow-up of university research results, which 
TI - The Act on inventions at public research institutions: Danish universities' patenting activity
JF - "Scientometrics"
DO - 10.1007/s11192-006-0159-0
DA - 2006-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/the-act-on-inventions-at-public-research-institutions-danish-AmVRCNSkPj
SP - 387
EP - 407
VL - 69
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -