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These are disclosures which, after evaluation, universities and hospitals determined to contain enough novelty to represent an advance over existing technologies and offer economic potential.

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These spin-off companies are set up to: (a) license the institution’s technology; or (b) fund research at the institution in order to develop technology that will be licensed by the company; or (c) provide a service that was originally offered through a department or unit of the institution.

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The 39% share of patent portfolio refers here to the portfolio of those educational institutions that licensed, assigned or commercialized at least one patent at the end of 2008, not to the full patent portfolio held at end of year.