Inside multi-disciplinary science and engineering research centers: The impact of organizational climate on invention disclosures and patents

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dc.contributor.authorHunter, Emily M.
dc.contributor.authorPerry, Sara J.
dc.contributor.authorCurrall, Steven C.
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-09T19:46:17Z
dc.date.available2022-06-09T19:46:17Z
dc.date.issued2011-11
dc.description.abstractMuch past research on commercialization activities by university scientists and engineers has focused on the role of resources in the extra-organizational commercialization environment, such as the availability of venture capital funding. By contrast, our theoretical and empirical interest was in intra-organizational dynamics impacting the context in which scientists and engineers work. Drawing upon organizational psychology literature on the construct of organizational climate, we posited that researchers working in an intra-organizational climate that supports commercialization and encourages intra-organizational boundary-spanning will be more likely to produce invention disclosures and patents. Our data from 218 respondents at 21 engineering research centers was both multi-method (i.e., qualitative data from interviews, longitudinal archival data, and survey data) and multi-level. Our results showed that an organizational climate characterized by support for commercialization predicted invention disclosures one year later and an organizational climate characterized by boundary-spanning predicted patent awards two years later.en_US
dc.description.keywordsTechnology commercializationen_US
dc.description.keywordsMulti-disciplinary researchen_US
dc.description.keywordsInnovationen_US
dc.description.keywordsPatentsen_US
dc.description.keywordsOrganizational climateen_US
dc.identifier.citationHunter, E. M., Perry, S. J., & Currall, S. C. (2011) Inside multi-disciplinary science and engineering research centers: The impact of organizational climate on invention disclosures and patents. Research Policy, 40(9), 1226-1239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2011.05.024en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.respol.2011.05.024
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2104/12032
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.titleInside multi-disciplinary science and engineering research centers: The impact of organizational climate on invention disclosures and patentsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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