Uncovering the quality of inventions and licensing process: a theoretical approach
by Radu Munteanu
International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IJSEI), Vol. 1, No. 3, 2012

Abstract: In this paper I show how an important quality measure for the university inventions, the grant amounts, affects the probability of entering a secrecy agreement and a license. A secrecy is a confidential agreement used by the firms to learn about the quality of inventions, prior to licensing the invention. The paper also introduces a new quality measure for the inventions which is based on the number of secrecy agreements previously executed on the invention. I use two theoretical approaches to model the decision of taking a secrecy, namely sequentially and simultaneously, as a function of invention's quality.

Online publication date: Sat, 29-Nov-2014

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