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===Singh A. and Wong P.K: University patenting activities and their link to the quantity and quality of scientific
publications (2009) ===
[AnetteSingh_PKWong.pdf]
==== Findings ====
* patenting by 281 leading world universities has consistently grown faster than
general American patenting from 1977 - 2000
* North American university patenting growth has slowed relative to universities outside North America since
the mid-1990s
* Between 2003-2005, they found that university patenting output has significant correlation with the both the
quality and quantity of scientific publishing in North America
* In European and Australian universities, patenting correlated only with the quantity of scientific publishing,
not with the quality
* In universities Europe, Australia, and North America, patenting correlated only with the quality of scientific publishing
==== Data Sources ====
* USPTO Patenting Data
* Shanghai Jia Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
* Times Higher Education Supplement's World University Ranking (WUR)
* Quantity was measured by counts of publications
* Quality was measured by citations to said publications
* the relationship between research and patenting was evaluated in two ways
1. At the institutional level: patents assigned to universities
2. At the individual level: patents with university researchers as the inventors
==== Critiques ====
* citations are not really a perfect measure of research quality and citations have little to do with practical use
of the study (i.e. how much technological innovation is generated as a result of academic research publications)
==== Other Discoveries ====
