The 75^thAnnual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) will take place in Vancouver, Canada from 7^th August, 2015 through 11^th August. SEM PhD candidate, Xuhua CHANG, has received notice from organization committee, the dissertation University Invention Disclosure: Balancing the Right Stage and Type written by him and his supervisor win the Best Paper Award (Top 10%) and is included in annual conference proceedings. This article systematically analyses the influence of academic reputation, intratype competition and economics return on disclosure of teachers’ invention and teachers’ willingness to share information.