The Influencing Factors of University Teachers' Willingness to Disclose Inventions - Empirical Study from China
The Influencing Factors of University Teachers' Willingness to Disclose Inventions - Empirical Study from China

Summary/Abstract: University teachers selectively disclosing inventions leads to a serious loss of high-value inventions in colleges, which seriously hinders the transformation process of university patents. To promote achievement transformation, Sichuan Province took the lead in carrying out the pilot reform of the mixed ownership of employee inventions in universities in China and encouraged professional inventors to transform achievements with property rights. However, whether university teachers are willing to disclose high-quality inventions to universities is unknown, and the stimulating effect of reforms on college teachers remains to be examined. From the perspective of the current situation of university teachers' willingness to disclose inventions in the process of the transformation of university patents, this paper selects teachers from seven universities in Sichuan Province, China, as the objects of the questionnaire, including Sichuan University and Southwest Jiaotong University. The study uses a structural equation model and draws the following conclusions: university teachers' characteristics, incentive mechanisms, and invention characteristics are positively related to their willingness to disclose inventions; enterprise activities are negatively related to university teachers' willingness to disclose inventions; and the influence of patent examination on the intention of invention disclosure is weak.

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