Patentes y Función Publica Universitaria en Europa: Mitos y Realidades

• Autor(a) principal: Ruiz, Ana Urraca
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Inovação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/article/view/8648918
• topic: University; Patents; Europe; University-firms Relationships; Public Goods; O34; Universidade. Patentes. Europa. Relações universidade-empresa. Bens públicos.; O34

Since the beginning of the eighties, a new view for universities has emerged as a consequence of, mainly, four facts: (i) the new model of neo-regulation for universities based on a full independence to appropriate the benefits of their research efforts; (ii) the coming out of new applied sciences, as microbiology; (iii) the enforcement of university-company relationships; and (iii) the need to explore new possibilities to finance public research. Under this scenario, some traditional roles of University as producer and diffuser of scientific and technical knowledge would be losing importance while another would begin to take place: the commercialization and exploration of public research results. Using data from European Patent Office between 1978 and 2002, this paper aims to evaluate if those changes have really happened in European universities. The results confirm, as in the American case, a strong increase of the university patenting activity in Europe. Nevertheless, this activity is still very small and residual and it is too soon to perceive any perverse effect on the traditional university public function as a whole.