Does Productive Mean Active? The Behavior of Occasional and Serial Academic Inventors in Patenting Processes

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Danielle Lewensohn, Ebba Sjögren, C. Sundberg
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Previous literature has attributed differences in individuals’ inventive productivity to a range of environmental, organizational and individual traits. However, the behavior of individuals with different inventive productivity has not been empirically explored in detail. Based on interviews with twenty Swedish academic inventors of diverse patenting experience, this paper analyses how serial and occasional inventors acted in patent initiation, patent application and subsequent patent management for specific inventions. Two modes of behavior are identified: passive and active. Individuals’ inventive productivity was not aligned with behavioral mode, with both modes of behavior exhibited by occasional as well as serial academic inventors. Individual academic inventors also varied in mode of behavior across different patent processes. These findings suggest that commonly used volume-based classifications of academic inventors obscure potentially relevant behavioral differences. This insight has implications for contemporary policy and organizational practice. It also highlights the need for further investigation of when academic inventors assume an active or passive mode of behavior in processes of academic commercialization.
高效就意味着积极吗?偶然与连续学术发明人在专利过程中的行为
先前的文献将个人创造力的差异归因于一系列环境、组织和个人特征。然而,具有不同创造性生产力的个体的行为尚未得到详细的实证研究。本文通过对20位具有不同专利经验的瑞典学术发明人的访谈,分析了连续发明人和临时发明人在特定发明的专利发起、专利申请和后续专利管理中的行为。确定了两种行为模式:被动和主动。个体的创造性生产力与行为模式不一致,偶尔和连续的学术发明家都表现出这两种行为模式。个体学术发明人在不同的专利过程中的行为模式也各不相同。这些发现表明,学术发明人常用的基于体积的分类掩盖了潜在的相关行为差异。这一见解对当代政策和组织实践具有启示意义。它还强调了进一步调查学术发明人在学术商业化过程中何时采取主动或被动行为模式的必要性。
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Triple Helix
Triple Helix Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
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