Open Science and University Patenting: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Italian Case

This chapter addresses the issue of university patenting and its impact on the scientific activity of academic researchers. The issue is highly debated in Europe where legislators are trying to design policy instruments to support the technological transfer from university to industry and to create an optimal set of incentives to stimulate scientists’ productivity. The relationship between patenting and publishing may be controversial because there are as many arguments claiming that the relationship is beneficial to both university and industry as reasons to fear that patenting may hinder the free diffusion of scientific knowledge or bias the scientists’ choice of research topics.

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