Incentives to Invent at Universities

This article will be updated as the state of the academic literature evolves; you can read the latest version here. A podcast version of me reading this post is late but will happen - subscribe if you don’t want to miss it.Prior to the 2000s, many European countries practiced something called “the professor’s privilege” wherein university professors retained patent rights to inventions they made while employed at the university. This was a “privilege” because the norm is for patent ownership to ...