DOI: 10.1177/09504222261498280 ISSN: 0950-4222

Governing tokenized claims on university intellectual property under regulatory uncertainty: A Triple Helix architecture

Andreas Peters

Where a university licence is monetised through claims held by several parties, conventional bilateral licensing remains the presumptive form and tokenization is not required. This paper asks what governance is needed when such claims are nonetheless distributed and regulatory delay, contestation, or distress arrives while they are outstanding. Our design proposition is that adaptation should be organised by governance dimension: when several verified events instruct an arrangement at once, a dimension-specific precedence schedule suspends only the conflicting instruction and lets compatible ones proceed, where a hierarchy among whole rules would discard them. Grounded in Triple Helix theory, transaction cost economics, polycentric governance, and institutional theory, the schedule is represented as a specification schema of seven design requirements, five lifecycle states with a dispute overlay, 18 conditional rules, and eight design principles. A formative artificial evaluation probes rule coverage and one compound-event conflict; it tests neither legal feasibility nor practitioner acceptance nor operational effectiveness.

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