Patent incentives and university scientists : a case study of the Bayh-Dole model in Taiwan
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The Mertonian Norms (also known as CUDOS, an acronym for Communalism, Universalism, Disinterestedness, and Organized Skepticism) support and reinforce cooperative behaviors among scientists. CUDOS has economic and social efficiency properties for the advancement of science. However, they are not necessarily incentive-compatible for professional scientists who depend on financiers to conduct research and make a living. Traditionally, nation-states have been regarded as an ideal financier for open science. But the interests of national-states and the need to hold public-sponsored scientists accountable can be at odds with CUDOS. In the past several decades, many countries have emulated the U.S. Bayh-Dole model, encouraging academic scientists to patent public-funded discoveries. Another global development is the New Public Management to make the public services (such as the higher education system) more "customer-oriented." These developments together have created a new economics of academic science. Based on interview data of 44 faculty scientists in Taiwan, this thesis formulates two ideal types of academic entrepreneurs: traditionalists and commercialists. Traditionalist-inclined academics and commercialist-inclined ones have different research propensities. They assign various weights to reputational and financial patent rewards and, as a result, engage in academic patenting differently. However, individual academic entrepreneurs position themselves at various points between the two ends of the spectrum. Moreover, academic entrepreneurs' positions, power, and resources affect how they take advantage of the commercialization opportunity that may come with scientific discovery and whether there is a tradeoff between them. Future academic entrepreneurship policies should be implemented with the mind of the heterogeneity of academic entrepreneurs.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Huang, Tai-Jan |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Greely, Henry T |
| Thesis advisor | Greely, Henry T |
| Thesis advisor | MacCoun, Robert J |
| Thesis advisor | Ouellette, Lisa Larrimore |
| Degree committee member | MacCoun, Robert J |
| Degree committee member | Ouellette, Lisa Larrimore |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Law |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Tai-Jan Huang. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the School of Law JSD. |
| Thesis | Thesis JSD Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/kx897bv8251 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Tai-Jan Huang
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-ND).
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