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Academic Engagement, Commercialization, and Scholarship : Empirical Evidence from Agricultural and Life Scientists at U.S. Land-grant Universities
Barham, Bradford L. - 2020
This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two … faculty attitudes toward science and commercial activity shape involvement in UIR. Significant differences also stem from … university level effects and may be contingent on culture, history, location, and quality of science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479212
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Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R&D
Blume-Kohout, Margaret E. - 2009
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-federal (private and state/local government) sources. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463504
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Inventor Moral Hazard in University Licensing : The Role of Contracts
Dechenaux, Emmanuel - 2008
We examine commonly observed forms of payment, such as milestones, royalties, or consulting contracts as ways of engaging inventors in the development of licensed inventions. Our theoretical model shows that when milestones are feasible, royalties are not optimal unless the licensing firm is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464422
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University Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups
Chukumba, Celestine - 2005
This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start-up firm rather than an established firm. The model predicts that university inventions are more likely to occur in start-ups when the technology transfer officers (TTOs) search cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467204
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Standing on Academic Shoulders : Measuring Scientific Influence in Universities
Adams, James D. - 2004
lower-ranked institutions are cited by their peers. Overall the results suggest that knowledge spillovers in basic science … main fields that classify the data cover nearly all of science; and the time period is 1981-1999. Altogether the database …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467814
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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
Damsgaard, Erika Farnstrand - 2012
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460679
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The Impact of Information Technology on Scientists' Productivity, Quality and Collaboration Patterns
Ding, Waverly W. - 2009
This study advances the prior literature concerning the impact of information technology on productivity in academe in two important ways. First, it utilizes a dataset that combines information on the diffusion of two noteworthy and early innovations in IT -- BITNET and the Domain Name System...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463366
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The Color of Money : Federal vs. Industry Funding of University Research
Babina, Tania - 2020
U.S. universities have experienced a shift in research funding away from federal and towards private industry sources. This paper evaluates whether the source of funding - federal or private industry - is relevant for commercialization of research outputs. We link person-level grant data from 22...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482379
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Restructuring Research : Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2006
We report evidence indicating that Bitnet adoption facilitated increased research collaboration between US universities. However, not all institutions benefited equally. Using panel data from seven top engineering journals, Bitnet connection records, and a variety of institution ranking data, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465847
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Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?
Kim, E. Han - 2006
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466423