Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Company formation, Business Plans, grade: 1,0, University of W rzburg (Betriebswirtschaft), course: Academic Entrepreneurship, language: English, abstract: There has been a conspicuous increase in patenting and licensing, which is an indicator for an aggrandisement of academic entrepreneurship at American research universities since the 1970s. The number of patents which can be issued...