UTEMPL is a flexible tool for information ex-traction and text mining: •based on UIMA • easy use of several input formats: – Medline abstracts – Journal articles (HTML or XML) – Patents • standardized interfaces: integration of – NLP tools from different developers – new analysis engines for new

Abstract—This paper explores the recent explosion in university patenting as a source of insight into the changing relationship between the university and the private sector. Before the mid-1980s, university patents were more highly cited, and were cited by more diverse patents, than a random

Intellectual Property Rights to Living Organisms – A Path for a sui generis system and Fridtjof Nansen Institute. The author wants to thank Regine Andersen for valuable comments and suggestions. The views presented in this article do not reflect the Norwegian Research Council or the persons who commented on earlier drafts of this

on benefiting local industries and constituents. However, little is known about the research-spillover patterns of public universities and how they differ from private universities. In this paper, I examine patenting by public research universities over the 1975- 2000 period and compare characteristics

The increasing public and institutional support for university patents has opened two major sources of debate: First, does this emphasis affect the quality of research? Second, are university patents an effective mechanism for university-industry interaction? Our aim is to address both questions

Abstract This paper surveys the existing fragmentary data on the growth of university-owned patents and university-invented patents in Europe. We find evidence that university patenting is growing, but this phenomenon remains heterogeneous across countries and disciplines. We find no evidence

The growth of high-technology clusters in the United States suggests the presence of strong regional agglomeration effects that reflect proximity to universities or other research institutions. Using

In this paper, we present a visualization of the demography of U.S. University patenting activities between 1969 and 2000 at twenty universities producing the highest number of patents during the same time period. Extracting patents granted to U.S. universities from the United States Patent

2006-11-27 Word count: 11.000 1 This Paper has been presented in DRUID-winter (2006) Conference and Technology Transfer Society Conference (2005). Many thanks to participants in those conferences especially Don Siegel, Denis Gray, Ed Steinmueller, Maryann Feldman, Jesper Christensen and Elad Harison. It has been also examined and discussed by Martin Meyer in Devrim Göktepe’s Half-time seminar in January, 2006. 1 Table of Contents

from a university in Scotland. Interviews with the TTO director of the University and seven other universities TTO Directors were also conducted. Whether a patent is commercially exploited, and the way in which it is exploited is influenced by three main factors: (i) the entrepreneurs and the inventors