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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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types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations … research funds than academic commercialization does, but both continue to be dwarfed by public funding. We find evidence of …
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This paper studies how recent investigations of foreign influence in research have affected the productivity of U … coincide with a decline in the productivity of scientists with previous collaborations with scientists in China, especially … productivity by fields for both the U.S. and China …
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The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of … China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research … experience and returned to do their research in China ("returnee"). Analyzing 2018 Scopus data on research papers, we estimate …
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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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War II. In 1940, a group of top U.S. science administrators organized a major coordinated research effort to support the … Allied war effort, including significant investments in medical research which yielded innovations like mass … appropriate R&D policy in a crisis requires going beyond the standard Nelson-Arrow framework for research policy …
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We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...
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Despite the widespread popularity of the U.S. News & World Report College rankings there has been no empirical analysis of the impact of these rankings on applications, admissions, and enrollment decisions, as well as on institutions' pricing policies. Our analyses indicate that a less favorable...
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Previous measures of the incidence of public investment in higher education focus on the transfer to public college students. This implies that the net benefits to students who do not attend public colleges is negative. However, they miss potential general equilibrium effects on the private...
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We develop a general equilibrium model of the market for undergraduate higher education that captures the coexistence of public and private colleges, the large degree of quality differentiation among them, and the tuition and admission policies that emerge from their competition for students....
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