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1. Total income from intellectual property (IP) at Canadian universities and affiliated teaching hospitals was $52.5 million (current dollars) in 2007, down 12% from 2006 ($59.7 million) (Table 18-1).
2. The proportion of Canadian universities and affiliated hospitals engaged in intellectual property management (IP) decreased to 71% in 2007 (compared to 82% in 2006) (Table 1-1).
3. There were 285 full-time equivalent employees engaged in IP management in 2007, down 12% from 2006 (323 in 2006), while total operational expenditures for IP management decreased by less than 2% between the two years, from $42.5 million to $41.9 million (Table 2-1).
4. The value of research contracts undertaken at universities and affiliated hospitals was estimated at $1.2 billion, up by 6% from 2006 (Table 9-1).
5. In 2007, the number of new inventions disclosed and reported to universities and affiliated hospitals remained virtually unchanged from previous year at 1,357 (Table 13-1).
6. There were 1,634 patent applications filed with universities and affiliated hospitals in 2007, up from 1,442 in 2006 (+13%) (Table 14-1).
7. The number of patents issued to Canadian universities and affiliated hospitals increased from 339 to 479 (+41%) between 2006 and 2007 (Table 15-1), while the total number of patents held at the end of 2007 declined from 4,784 to 4,185 (-13%) (Table 16-1).
8. A total of 24 spin-off companies launched by universities and affiliated hospitals were reported to have been incorporated in 2007 (Table 20-1). This brings to 1,174 the total number of companies spun off by educational institutions to date (Tables 19-1 and 24-1).