Detail Information
| Category | Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Kang, Byeongwoo |
| Article Title | Impact of Academic Patenting on Scientific Publication Quality at the Project Level |
| Institution | Asian Journal of Technology Innovation |
| Volume | Vol. 29 |
| Number | Issue 2 |
| Page | pp. 258-282, refereed |
| Date | 2020/07/31 |
| Abstract | This paper investigates the relationship between patenting and publishing at the project level. It uses Japan’s Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research database. Japan’s Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research is the major funding source for academic researchers in Japan. This database provides information on inputs (budget, period, project members, etc.) and outputs (publications and patents) from each funded research project. The main finding is that patenting has a curvilinear correlation with higher impact, i.e. the number of higher impact publications from funded research projects increases with the number of patents only to a certain amount, and after a peak, it decreases. Our finding implies that if a finding is a relatively significant and marketable breakthrough, researchers who have the possibility of patenting in mind become less likely to share their results openly. Meanwhile, previous studies implicitly assumed that researchers have to make a choice between basic or applied research projects, or for a particular research project choose to make it more applied or basic. Another finding of this study is that the assumption applies to projects. Our findings imply that a heavy emphasis on patenting may reduce the amount of high-quality publishing of scientific research. |
| Notes | |
| URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19761597.2020.1798795?needAccess=true&cookieSet=1 |
| Label | 大学, 特許, 技術商業化 |
| Register date | 2020/07/31 |
