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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Individuals involved in basic research, like other workers, respond to incentives. Funding agencies provide implicit … responses of researchers to rules, socially optimal rules are derived. Research incentive issues have private business analogues …

About 20 percent of the gross investment expenditures of U.S. manufacturing firms is expenditures on research and …

industry, with uncertain effects on agricultural research. All of these factors create an urgent need for systematic empirical … evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through …

crowdfunding for scientific research. We first briefly review prior research on crowdfunding and give an overview of dedicated … platforms for crowdfunding research. We then analyze data from over 700 campaigns on the largest dedicated platform, Experiment … highlight important differences between crowdfunding and traditional funding mechanisms for research, including high use by …

We study a dynamic model of the decision to continue or abandon a research project. Researchers improve their ideas …, subsidies have a larger impact on research output, but prizes perform better when accounting for researchers' opportunity costs …