TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akriti Jain 
AU  - Ruchi Sharma 
AU  - P Vigneswara Ilavarasan 
TI  - To patent or not? : Factors and motivation Affecting Indian academic patenting 
KW  - EDU
KW  - Patenting
KW  - Academic culture
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - National Innovation Systems
KW  - Atal Innovation Mission
KW  - Institutional Policies
N2  - India has undertaken many regulatory and legislative reforms to promote innovation and patent protection by universities and academic institutions. To achieve this broader policy objective, it is crucial to identify factors and motivations that drive academic researchers to file patent applications. We provide an empirical estimation of the extent to which patenting by academic institutions in India is affected by factors like institutional policy frameworks, departmental differences, and individual researchers’ characteristics. Using the Heckprobit estimation method and zero-inflated binary outcome techniques, we find that the absence of supportive institutional infrastructure, coupled with making patents a mandatory criterion for career advancement, results in low patent application probability and intensity
ER  -