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Table 11: Licences executed — to start-up, small, medium or large companies, Year 2000
(for respondents that provided data)
COMMERCIAL ACTIVIT Y
Total Licences
Executed
Start-up
Companies
Percent of
Total
Small
Companies
Percent of
Total
Medium
Companies
Percent of
Total
Large
Companies
Percent of
Total
Universities 204 35 17 48 24 22 11 99 49
Medical Research Institutes 15 6 40 1 7 5 33 3 20
CSIRO 117 18 15 14 12 14 12 71 61
Total 336 59 18 63 19 41 12 173 51
A significant proportion of licensing activity is focused on small companies, with 47% of medical
research institute licences, 41% of university licences and 27% of CSIRO licences executed to start-up or
small companies.
Of the 417 licences executed by universities, medical research institutes and CSIRO in
Year 2000, 335 (80%) were reported as either exclusive or non-exclusive and as being
executed to start-up, small, medium or large companies:
of the licences executed to start-up companies, 86% were exclusive and 14% were
non-exclusive.
of the licences executed to small companies, 48% were exclusive and 52% were
non-exclusive.
of the licences executed to medium companies, 54% were exclusive and 46% were
non-exclusive.
of the licences executed to large companies, 29% were exclusive and 71% were
non-exclusive.
The very high proportion of exclusive licences executed to start-up companies suggests that the ability
to grant exclusive licences is important to company start-up activity, an important contribution to the
overall economic impact of licensing by universities, medical research institutes and CSIRO.
B) INCOME PATTERNS
The survey sought information from institutions about the number of licences that yielded
income in Year 2000 and the amount of income they received from these licences in that
year, in the form of running royalties, cashed-in equity and all other types of income.
Income from licences
The 491 licences that were executed by universities, medical research institutes and CSIRO and which
yielded income in Year 2000, yielded gross income amounting to $103.6 million and adjusted gross
income 7 amounting to $99.4 million in Year 2000.
7
Adjusted gross income from licences is gross income from licences minus licence income paid to other
institutions. The subtraction of licence income paid to other institutions from gross income from licences
removes a possible double count in the licence income data that may occur from the reporting of the same
income by more than one institution.
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