Research commercialisation in Europe: a matter of governance of university TTOs

These conversions have been explained in the datasets. There is no data for the TTO category ‘Discipline-specialised’ in the file ’Repository with codebook 2, Academic patents in The Netherlands (1994-2014)’ because no respondents chose this category. From the 2665 respondents, 21 did not meet the target group (tenured position at a faculty of a European university).

The number of valid responses is therefore 2644. Of these 2644 respondents, 329 work at a Dutch university. The percentages on academic patents (patents in which at least one scientist with a position at a Dutch university is involved as creator) in the file ’Repository with codebook 2, Academic patents in The Netherlands (1994-2014)’ do not always add up to 100 percent because patents of single individuals are not taken into account.

This occasionally also applies to patents of non-Dutch organisations. Of the 60.000 email addresses of European scientists that were selected, over 30.000 turned out to be incorrect, closed, or moved to a different and unknown email address. The response figure of 8.9 percent is therefore based on the 2665 respones from 30.000 valid email addresses.

The depositor provided the data files in XLSX format. DANS added the ODS format of these files to ensure preservation. For the same reason, a PDF/A format of the DOC file was added.