| U.S. General Accounting Office |
| Survey on Federally Funded Research at Institutions of Higher Education (GAO-04-223SP) |
| Q29. In what year did your institution begin to allow the receipt of equity in a startup company? |
| 1947-1979 (percent) | 1980-1989 (percent) | 1990-1999 (percent) | 2000-2003 (percent) | No answer (percent) | Number of respondents |
| 3.9 | 21.3 | 47.7 | 16.1 | 11.0 | 155 |