So Young Sohn - Corresponding author: Position (Professor) and Special field of the first author (Technology management, marketing,quality and reliability engineering) Yonsei University
Eun Jin Han - Position (Ph.D. student) and Special field of the second author (IP management, data mining, text mining, and qualityengineering)Yonsei University

For sustainable and effective innovation, who should have the ownership for the academic patent obtained as a result of industry funding Based on the Vroom s expectancy theory, we deal with this issue in the perspective of engineering graduate students who have experience of R&D project, expecting that they will lead important innovation in the near future. In order to identify influential factors on this issue, we utilize a decision tree analysis by considering graduate students views on various factors related to researcher , sponsor , technology , and compensation . This study is expected to contribute to improve the ownership issue of academic invention by accommodating the voices of young inventors.

Academic Patenting, Ownership Issue, Engineering Graduate Students, Decision tree analysis