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Table 13: Gross income from licences — running royalties, cashed-in equity and all other income, Year 2000
($’000) (for respondents that provided data)
COMMERCIAL ACTIVIT Y
Total Gross
Income
Running
Royalties
Percent
of Total
Cashed-In
Equity
Percent
of Total
All Other
Income
Universities 79,834 8,702 11 52,342 66 18,790 24
Medical Research Institutes 8,071 4,002 50 2,200 27 1,869 23
CSIRO 11,620 5,455 47 600 5 5,565 48
Total 99,525 18,159 18 55,142 55 26,224 26
Percent
of Total
CSIRO reported that, of the 220 of its licences which yielded income in Year 2000, 170
yielded income in the form of running royalties and one yielded income in the form of
cashed-in equity. All others yielded income from other sources, such as licence-issue fees,
payments under options and termination payments.
Of CSIRO’s 220 income producing-licences, six accounted for 55% of total gross income
from licences — 21% of income-producing licences accounted for almost 90% of total
gross income from licences. Some 38% ($4.4 million) of gross income from licences was
from overseas.
C) INCOME FROM LICENCES VERSUS PROGRAM AGE
The survey sought information about the year in which institutions first dedicated at
least one half-time personnel to commercialisation activities. This information allows
an examination to be made of the degree of correlation between an institution’s income
from licences and that institution’s length of experience managing commercial licensing
activities.
The graph below groups the licensing programs of individual universities and medical
research institutes according to the income they yielded in Year 2000 and their age (which
indicates length of experience managing commercial licences). An institution’s licensing
program is the set of all of the commercialisation activities associated with its licences.
Number of programs by income and program age
33