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* 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 sincethe 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