University Technology Transfer: A Data Set Showing How University Policies, Demographics and Location Influence Success

This dataset includes a 5 year survey of 153 United States universities’ technology transfer outcomes, including the number of patents, licensing income, and the number of associated startups for each year collected by the annual survey of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). Additional data was collected from publicly available sources and enriched by the authors. This includes information about the university location, climate, diversity, research expenditures, educational programs, relevant search engine results and other important regional factors. Additionally, the team studied the technology transfer policies for each university and encoded key factors with the data, making this data very valuable to university leaders hoping to improve their innovation and outreach impact.