(Nowy Sacz School of Business – National-Louis University, 2015) Wisła, Rafał; Sierotowicz, Tomasz
The issue of the commercialization of patents, as an exemplification of the industrial
property, is mostly considered at the microeconomic level. Patent commercialization
belongs to the innovation management process, which takes place in innovative
organizations. Such microeconomic research approach does not take into account the
phenomenon of the intellectual property simultaneous spread and use of scientific
and technical knowledge in the economy. These observations lead to undertaking
research on the commercial use of patents in the economy. The aim of this paper
is to present the research results of the patent licensing as one of the forms of
commercialization in the selected European countries in the long time period. The
main purpose of undertaken research was to identify and measure the patent
licensing dynamics, which is part of the one of the major research related to identify
and structure recognition of patents commercialization stream. To achieve this
purpose, the collection of patent metadata for the member states of the European
Patent Office was used, as well as the author’s own concordance IPC→NACE table. As
a result of the research, some of the European countries were identified as leading,
in terms of the number of licensed patents, the dynamics spread of patent property
in the European economy that was set, and the branches were established, in which
the emerging new industrial solutions are the subject of commercialization with the
use of license contracts.