Helsinki Institute of Science and Technology Studies

HIST PUBLIC LECTURE 28.9.2011 klo 10-12

Prof. Martin Kenney (University of California, Davis): "University-industry Inventor vs. University Ownership"

Helsinki Institute of Science and Technology Studies (HIST) on vuonna 2004 perustettu verkostopohjainen tieteen- ja teknologiantutkimukseen keskittyvä yksikkö. Siihen kuuluu yhdeksän Helsingin yliopistossa ja Aalto-yliopistossa toimivaa tutkimusryhmää. Tieteen- ja teknologiantutkimuksen tulosten välittämiseksi muille tutkijoille ja päätöksentekijöille HIST järjestää sarjan luentoja (HIST Public Lectures), joissa esiintyjinä on alan eturivin tutkijoita eri puolilta maailmaa.

Seuraava HIST Public Lectures -sarjan tilaisuus järjestetään keskiviikkona 28.9.2011 klo 10-12 Helsingin yliopiston päärakennuksen (Unioninkatu 34) auditoriossa XII (2. krs.).

Luennoijana on professori Martin Kenney (Kalifornian yliopisto, Davis), joka esittelee empiirisiä tuloksia siitä, kuinka yliopistotutkimukseen pohjautuvien patenttien omistusoikeudet tulisi järjestää mahdollisimman tehokkaan teknologiansiirron aikaansaamiseksi. Kenneyn tulokset viittaavat siihen, että yliopisto-omisteisten patenttien sijaan omistusoikeudet olisi järkevintä jättää patentoitujen keksintöjen tekijöiden haltuun (ks. tarkemmin luennon abstrakti alla). Professori Kenneyn esitelmää kommentoivat dosentti Marjut Salokannel ja tutkimushallinnon johtaja Tapio Koivu Helsingin yliopistosta. Luennon jälkeen on varattu aikaa yleiskeskustelulle.

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Abstract: University-industry inventor vs. university ownership

This paper examines whether university ownership of inventions made by its personnel best serves the widely held social goals of encouraging technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. Using a hand-collected census of technology-based university spin-offs from six universities, one of which is the University of Waterloo and the only inventor-ownership university in North America, we compare the number and type of spin-offs produced by these universities. We find suggestive evidence that inventor-ownership universities can be more efficient in generating spin-offs on both a per-faculty and per-R&D dollar expended perspective. We find that the field of computer sciences and electrical engineering generates a greater number of spin-offs than do our other two categories -- the biomedical sciences, and the field of engineering and the physical sciences. In general, our results demonstrate that inventor ownership can be extremely productive of spin-offs. From these results, we suggest that governments seeking to encourage university invention commercialization and entrepreneurship should experiment with an inventor-ownership system.

Prof. Martin Kenney's Bio

Martin Kenney is a professor in the Department of Human and Community Development and fellow in the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of California, Davis. He is also a senior project director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. He previously served as associate professor at the Ohio State University. Dr. Kenney was the Arthur Anderson distinguished visitor at the Judge Institute of Management Studies at Cambridge and has been a visiting scholar at several universities. Author and/or editor of five books and 120 articles, he has focused his research on ways in which new technologies and business models change the business organization of capitalist firms; the formation of the U.S. biotechnology industry; university-industry linkages; the growth and development of Silicon Valley; and the venture capital industry. He currently examines the globalization of the venture capital industry and services off shoring to India. Dr. Kenney received a Ph.D. in development sociology from Cornell University.