Ceris-Cnr, W.P. N° 10/2005
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The patenting regime in the Italian public research system.
What motivates public
inventors to patent |
Bianca Potě, Emanuela
Reale |
Abstract:
The paper deals with two aspects: the public ownership
of intellectual property rights and the holding of the title (individuals vs
institutions) for the public financed research.
A key problem in the past and still now in Europe has been the low transfer of
results coming from public research to industrial users. Recently a new trend
developed which favours the patenting of the scientific results of public
actors. This change partly comes from the modification of the public funding
mechanism of allocation and goes with changes in the regulation and regime
related to the ownership of intellectual property rights.
The paper is built on a pilot study, which controlled if and how the
modification in national regulation affected the actors’ behaviour. It is based
on a survey of public inventors, in two public institutions (Cnr and Roma 1
University) who disclosed their inventions to the institutions in the last three
years; on interviews with the responsible persons of the patent offices in the
two institutions and on some data from the Cnr 2005 patent portfolio.
This pilot study on public patenting in Italy seems to confirm the persistence
of the academic incentives in the patenting activities of the public research
institutions, even in presence of the 2001 patenting regime, aimed to assign IPR
title to the public inventors.
Furthermore the results highlight the presence of a relation between public
institutions and firms that are not completely captured by the patenting
indicators. Patents are only the emerging part of a more large hidden area of
relationships between public institutions and industrial firms.
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Keywords: Public
patenting, Regulation on public patenting, Incentives for public inventors,
Determinants of public patenting. |
JEL Codes:
K11; 034; 031.
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SCARICA QUESTO WP |
Ceris-Cnr,
Section on: Science and technology institutions and
policies
Via dei Taurini, 19, 00185 Roma, Italy
e-mail:
b.poti@ceris.cnr.it,
e.reale@ceris.cnr.it
Phone: +390649937853 Fax: +390649937808 |