Abstract:

In the area of industrial property, patents and utility models are among the traditional and, at the same time, most important tools of legal protection for technical solutions and inventions. Reliable intellectual property (IP) statistics are an important tool in understanding trends in policy, business, and technology worldwide. Translating patent data into intelligence service allows gauging its current technical competitiveness, to forecast technological trends, and to evaluate commercial potential based on new technologies developed by worldwide universities. Patent data analysis is a unique management tool for addressing the strategic management of the technology and product service development process. We provide analyses from an international perspective, examining patents at 10 universities worldwide. Despite a worldwide increase in university patenting, empirical studies have largely focused on analyzing university patenting in individual countries and regions. The main objective of this study is to provide a review of the commercial potential of university patenting through numbers of PCT application filings.