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Research Agenda
An Analysis of the Impact of the Bayh-Dole Act on the Commercialization of Federally-Funded Research and Development
Project Leader: Donna Fossum
With the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980, the nation's academic community officially entered the technology transfer business, and consequently, virtually every college and university in the nation felt compelled to develop the internal capacity to do patenting and licensing of inventions resulting from federally funded research and development (R&D). In this project, we will examine the validity of possible explanations of why some colleges and universities have been much more successful than others at patenting and licensing inventions resulting from federally funded R&D on their campuses. To do this, we plan to tap the RaDiUS Database, which is the most comprehensive database of information on federally-funded R&D ever assembled. Coupled with additional information that we propose to obtain from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), as well as selected universities and colleges directly, we will test two "hypotheses" and, in so doing, will conduct the first evidence-based analysis of the impact of the Bayh-Dole Act on the patenting and licensing activities of U.S. universities and colleges.
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