Is there a trade-off of scholarly research productivity when faculty members found or join for-profit firms? This paper … journal publications. -- academic entrepreneurship ; SBIR ; NIH ; biomedical research ; life scientist productivity … offers an empirical examination of this question for a subpopulation of biomedical academic scientists who received research …

-for-profit research sector which may reduce knowledge accumulation and adversely impact long-run economic growth. In this paper, we … who start or join for-profit firms using information from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and … analyze the research performance of these scientists relative to a control group of randomly selected research peers …

In this chapter, we explore the extent to which universities and other nonprofit research institutes currently … appear to represent arms-length patent sales by universities (or other nonprofit research institutes) during the period 2012 … participants. Overall, U.S. universities and labs account for less than one quarter of sales, and elite U.S. research universities …