A recent study has highlighted how ineffectual it is for universities to patent their discoveries. The study shows that the patents do not show a sufficient return on investment to make the technology transfer office of a university worth funding. The Brookings research titled "University Start-Ups: Critical for Improving Technology Transfer" proposes that universities could launch their own start-ups in order to license their patents to these rather than licensing to outside companies for commercial use.
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