Government Patenting and Technology Transfer

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英文名称：

Government Patenting and Technology Transfer

作者：

Paul Heisey; John King; Kelly Day Rubenstein; Robbin Shoemaker

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=45092

关键词：

Patents;  licenses;  intellectual property rights;  technology transfer;  Agricultural Research Service;  ARS;  agricultural research and development; 

年份：

2006

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

60 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

This report examines the use of intellectual property rights in Federal technology transfer, focusing primarily on the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). ARS uses patenting and licensing when a technology requires additional development by a private sector partner to yield a marketable product. Licensing revenue is not a major motivation. Greater use of patenting and licensing by ARS has not reduced the use of traditional instruments of technology transfer such as scientific publication. The structure of licensing agreements affects technology transfer outcomes. Mutually advantageous revisions to license terms may at times maintain the incentives through which private companies distribute the benefits of public research.