Universities and federal laboratories often license their inventions to industry as a way to commercialize those technical advances. Which generate higher royalties?
Recently released data from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) indicates that the average university invention brought in significantly more in licensing income than the average invention from a federal laboratory in 2009, the latest year for which data are available.
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