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We study how the inventive capability of a firm conditions its participation in a division of innovative labor. Capable firms are, by definition, able to invent; for them, external inventions substitute for their own R&D. However, external knowledge is an input into internal invention, and thus,...
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This article examines the relationship between Research & Development (R&D) funding and the production of knowledge by academic chemists. Using articles published, either raw counts or adjusted for quality, we find a strong, positive causal effect of funding on knowledge production. This effect...
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scientific employees. While empirical research suggests that scientists exhibit a "taste for science," such open disclosures can …
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provision of incentives to corporate scientists, in an environment where (1) scientists engage in multiple activities when … performing research; (2) knowledge is not perfectly appropriable; (3) scientists are responsive to both monetary and non … competition affect the incentives given to scientists, and these effects interact. First, high knowledge spillovers lead firms to …
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star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm … there is little evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In early industry" formation, star scientists … firm scientists work" in the stars' university laboratories in contrast to America where the stars are more likely to work …
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by the labor mobility of top scientists from universities and research institutes to firms. We model labor mobility as a …), potential interfering offers from universities, and experienced increase in productivity of top scientists already in firms … increases with increases in local firms commercializing the technology and the percentage of ties to scientists outside the …
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This paper uses linked establishment-firm-employee data to examine the relationship between the scientists and … engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers … establishment. The results suggest that the work of scientists and engineers in goods and services producing establishments is an …
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When studying policy-relevant topics, researchers' policy preferences may shape the design, execution, analysis, and interpretation of results. Detection of such bias is challenging because the research process itself is not normally part of a controlled experimental setting. Our analysis...
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We explore how socio-economic background shapes academia, collecting the largest dataset of U.S. academics' backgrounds and research output. Individuals from poorer backgrounds have been severely underrepresented for seven decades, especially in humanities and elite universities. Father's...
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