Patents as a capability indicator for the entrepreneurial university: the case of IPN
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Purpose: To identify entrepreneurial capacity of the National Polytechnic Institute (ipn) through patent registration.
Methodological design: Fields of knowledge and academic units involved in patented inventions are identified through indicators of network centrality. Principal component analysis is applied to these indicators to conglomerate and hierarchize the fields and units.
Results: The multivariate methods applied in the study prove effective in systematizing and arranging network indicators, which were instrumental in distinguishing the significance and importance of various fields of knowledge and the academic units associated with patenting. These findings yield some some implications related to the entrepreneurial aspect of the ipn (National Polytechnic Institute), which in turn open up avenues of research concerning knowledge transfer and management.
Research limitations: The patent is a potential marketable asset; however, from the review of the patent databases, entrepeneurship cannot be directly inferred, although it is one of the relevant indicators of an entrepreneurial university, as it is understood that such universities aim to commercialize the knowledge they generate.
Findings: The most relevant fields of knowledge for inventive activity correspond to technologies that, within the academic organization of the IPN, fall under the category of medical-biological sciences, such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and health. Patenting activity in these areas is concentrated in relatively few academic units. Conversely, patenting activity in engineering and physical-mathematical sciences is concentrated in fewer fields of knowledge, but involves a more diverse participation among academic units.
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