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Bias against Novelty in Science : A Cautionary Tale for Users of Bibliometric Indicators

Wang, Jian - 2016

Research which explores unchartered waters has a high potential for major impact but also carries a higher uncertainty of having impact. Such explorative research is often described as taking a novel approach. This study examines the complex relationship between pursuing a novel approach and...

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Bringing Science to Market : Commercializing from NIH SBIR Awards

Link, Albert N. - 2008

U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award program. Based on this …

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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms : Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Link, Albert N. - 2012

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

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Do Funding Agencies Select and Enable Risky Research : Evidence from ERC Using Novelty as a Proxy of Risk Taking

Veugelers, Reinhilde; Wang, Jian; Stephan, Paula E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Concern exists that public funding of science is increasingly risk averse. Funders have addressed this concern by soliciting the submission of high-risk research to either regular or specially designed programs. Little evidence, however, has been gathered to examine the extent to which such...

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