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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52511#.VJor8cCAM4 Author(s) Xiaopei Gao , Wei Song , Xiaobao Peng , Xiaoyan Song Affiliation(s) School of Public Affairs, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China . ABSTRACT This paper had collected the patent licensing documents of all Chinese universities and made a comprehensive study on licensing performance. With a whole set of data from SIPO, the exact licensing frequency number and licensing propensity number of Chinese universities had been obtained for the first time. On average, 16.03 patents (6%) per university had been licensed out to the industry, which is much lower than expectations. The fre...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=48422#.VDzJhVfHRK0 Author(s)    Henning Kroll , Esther Schnabl Affiliation(s) Competence Center Policy and Regions, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany . Competence Center Policy and Regions, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany . ABSTRACT In China, as in other countries, pre-competitive research constitutes the basis of techno-economic development beyond imitation and adaptation. While acknowledging the nation’s concerted efforts to improve the situation, most empirical accounts of science-industry linkages in China remain sceptical about local universities’ ability ...