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This paper investigates the impact of federal extramural research funding on total expenditures for life sciences … research and development (R&D) at U.S. universities, to determine whether federal R&D funding spurs funding from non …
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I examine and document how the Endless Frontier changed the research landscape at universities and how universities … responded to the initiative. I show that the agencies it established and funded initially recruited research proposals from … universities had begun to push for more resources from the federal government for research, support for faculty salary and research …
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innovation in firms. However, inventions from universities and public research institutes substitute for corporate inventions and … reduce the demand for internal research by corporations, perhaps reflecting downstream competition from startups that …
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We analyse whether research funding contests promote co-authorship. Our analysis combines Scopus publication records … with data on applications to the Marsden Fund, the premiere source of funding for basic research in New Zealand. On average …
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estimates represent about 20 and 7 percent increases in research productivity for F32 and R01 recipients respectively. The … (F32s) and standard research grants (R01s). Both OLS and regression discontinuity estimates show that receipt of either … an NIH postdoctoral fellowship or research grant leads to about one additional publication over the next five years. The …
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This article examines the relationship between Research & Development (R&D) funding and the production of knowledge by …
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. Combining these expressions with publicly available data on salary, job titles, department affiliation, research productivity … preferences for unionization at research universities. We find that faculty with higher pay and greater research productivity are … accounting for pay and productivity, faculty in fields documented elsewhere to have more politically liberal participants are …
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We examine the distribution of Federal support for chemistry Research and Development (R&D) performed at U ….S. universities from 1990-2009. Federal R&D funding is an essential source of funds for investigator-driven research at the nation … aggregate funding. Second, we show a strong positive association between several measures of institutional research capacity and …
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research remains an isolated or 'ivory tower' activity, with weak connectivity to public use, little relationship between the … quality of research and its public use, and little correspondence between the funding of science and its public use. This …
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Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the...
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