The Texas A&M University System, which earlier this year amended its tenureship policy to include invention disclosures and the commercialization of intellectual property as criteria on which tenure can be awarded to its professors, has already seen a “significant” increase in invention disclosures this year because of the move, a university vice chancellor said this week.
 

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