Sökning: "Inventors"

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  1. 1. Inside the Ivory Tower- Inventors and Patents at Lund University

    Författare :Devrim Göktepe-Hultén; CIRCLE; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; patents; academic entrepreneurship; incentives; university inventors; intellectual property rights; Bayh-Dole Act; technology transfer; TTOs; Teacher s exception;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to identify patents invented by researchers at Lund University, to describe the university inventors,and to understand the main factors that influence their patenting activities. The analysis focuses on inventors in relation to their environment. A number of factors influence scientists’ decisions to patent. LÄS MER

  3. 2. How Immigrants Invent : Evidence from Sweden

    Författare :Yannu Zheng; CIRCLE; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; First-generation immigrants; Migration policy; Occupation; Education; Region of origin; Age; Sector; Selection; Human capital; Adults; Children; Patent; Inventors; Second-generation immigrants;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the inventive performance of immigrants in Sweden based on a special database which links inventors to the general population of the country from 1985 to 2007. It shows that the inventive performance of immigrants is influenced by immigrants’ age at migration, region of origin, educational level, match between education and occupation and migration policy. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Beyond bean counting : using patent information to investigate inventive productivity in academia

    Författare :Danielle Lewensohn; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :inventive productivity;

    Sammanfattning : Contemporary universities have multiple missions: to provide education, to conduct research and to contribute to innovation and growth through so-called third stream activities. Examples of the last include both commercial undertakings, such as patenting, licensing, and new business creation, and non-commercial accomplishments, such as social outreach. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The roots of invention : empirical studies on knowledge recombination

    Författare :Joseph Monroe; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : What drives technological invention? This dissertation examines one core mechanism of invention, namely knowledge recombination, in shaping invention outcomes across three studies. The first study reveals that inventors’ personality traits significantly affect their invention output, depending on their organizational knowledge context. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Impact of the Patent System on Innovation

    Författare :Julian Boulanger; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This Ph.D. thesis contains the following three independent chapters."Patents and Follow-On Innovation: Evidence From Patent Renewal Decisions" examines whether patent protection on existing technologies blocks or facilitates technical advances that spur from those existing technologies. LÄS MER