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Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India : Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function
Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of academic research and patenting in India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and number of research scholars) are transformed into...
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PATENTING PUBLIC-FUNDED RESEARCH FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER : A Conceptual-Empirical Synthesis of US Evidence and Lessons for India
Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over inventions arising out of federally-funded research and to...
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Self-organization of knowledge economies
Lafond, Francois - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
Suppose that homogenous agents fully consume their time to invent new ideas and learn ideas from their friends. If the social network is complete and agents pick friends and ideas of friends uniformly at random, the distribution of ideas’ popularity is an extension of the Yule-Simon...
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Learning and the structure of citation networks
Lafond, Francois - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
The distribution of citations received by scientific publications can be approximated by a power law, a finding that … popularity, and a shifted power law for the distribution of citations received. The two distributions flatten if there is … relatively more learning. The predicted exponent for the distribution of citations is independent of the average in-(or out …
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