Should patent and commercialization activities by faculty count toward tenure and promotion?
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 12:04
in Mathematics & Economics
Increasingly, institutions of higher learning are including faculty member patents and commercialization activities in their calculus for offering tenure and promotion. However, a report published in Volume 13 Number 3 of Technology and Innovation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors finds that 75 percent of institutions surveyed do not include patent and commercialization considerations in their tenure and promotion criteria.