Meyer, Martin S., Siniläinen, Tatiana, Utecht, Jan Timm (2003) Towards Hybrid Triple Helix Indicators: A Study of University-related Patents and a Survey of Inventors. Scientometrics, 58 (2). pp. 321-350. ISSN 0138-9130. (doi:10.1023/A:1026240727851) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:33723)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026240727851 |
Abstract
This paper presents work directed at capturing the entrepreneurial and collaborative activity of university researchers. The Triple Helix points to the emergence of the entrepreneurial university as well as to an increasing overlay of activities in universities, industry and government. This study explores ways in which patent-based metrics could be utilized in a Triple Helix context, and how hybrid indicators could be developed by combining patent with survey data. More specifically, it aims to develop indicators that connect technological inventiveness of university researchers to both funding organizations and users, as well as to entrepreneurial activities by academics. The paper develops a simplified model of the innovation process to benchmark the relevance of the indicators to the Triple Helix. An analysis of Finnish academic patents illustrates that patent data can already provide useful indicators but, on its own, cannot provide information about how academic patents are interconnected with government or industry through funding or utilization links. An exclusive analysis of patents can point to patent concentrations on certain universities, to inventors and assignees, or to potential gaps in translating applied science into industrial technology. However, the patent data had to be combined with an inventor survey in order to relate academic patents more to their Triple Helix environment. The survey indicated that most patented academic inventions are connected to (often publicly funded) scientific research by the inventors and tend to be utilized in large firms rather than in start-up companies founded by academic entrepreneurs.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1023/A:1026240727851 |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
Divisions: | Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Kent Business School (do not use) |
Depositing User: | Martin Meyer |
Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2013 14:29 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:16 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/33723 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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