Master of Science / Department of Agricultural Economics / Vincent R. Amanor-Boadu / Interest in commercialization of university research has accelerated since the Bayh-Dole
Act (1980) granted authority to universities and federally-funded nonprofit institutions, among
others, to obtain patents, grant licenses, and transfer custody of patents with the explicit purpose
of promoting the utilization and marketing of their inventions. This interest is supported by these
institutions' need to expand their funding sources as growth in their traditional funding has
lagged their needs. This study seeks to assess the level of understanding of research
commercialization and entrepreneurship aspects by the faculty researchers nearly 10 years after
Bayh-Dole Act using a survey of university faculty. The results show that there is indeed the
desire to move research from universities to the marketplace through technology
commercialization and entrepreneurship, but there is need for educational programs to enhance
the current perceptions about the commercialization and entrepreneurship among faculty. We
show that this need is independent of the demographic characteristics of faculty but influenced
the university's policies covering intellectual property and commercialization.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:KSU/oai:krex.k-state.edu:2097/505 |
| Date | January 1900 |
| Creators | Metla, Chandra Mohan Reddy |
| Publisher | Kansas State University |
| Source Sets | K-State Research Exchange |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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