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Out of the Ivory Tower: The Patenting Activity of Canadian University Professors before the 1980s
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Colleret, Maxime; Gingras, Yves – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2022
This study analyses the patenting activities of university science and engineering professors in Canada between 1920 and 1975. Unlike most studies on commercial activities in academia, which typically focus on the post-1980 period and on university practices, we focus on the pre-1980 period and on the individual decisions of professors to patent…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Science Education