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 …

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 …

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 …

U.S. universities have experienced a shift in research funding away from federal and towards private industry sources … research outputs. We link person-level grant data from 22 universities to patent and career outcomes (including IRS W-2 records … opposite effects. We conclude that the incentives of private funders to appropriate research outputs have important …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …