origin and patent protection, in order to allow for parameter heterogeneity based on a country's institutional …

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of …

commercially oriented? Using a Herfindahl-type measure of patent assignee concentration and employing a difference …

star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm …" in the firm's labs. As a result, star collaborations in Japan are less localized around their research" universities so …

Scientific knowledge is believed to be the wellspring of innovation. Historically, firms have also invested in research … to fuel innovation and growth. In this paper, we document a shift away from scientific research by large corporations … also find that the value attributable to scientific research has dropped, whereas the value attributable to technical …

The challenge of mitigating climate change has focused recent attention on basic scientific research feeding into the … technologies. Here we combine information from patent applications with bibliographic data to shine light on the second process …

This paper presents the results of a study of the determinants of research productivity in the pharmaceutical industry …. Using disaggregated, internal firm data at the research program level from ten major pharmaceutical companies, we find no … evidence of increasing returns to scale at either the firm or the research program level. However our results suggest that …

effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms exceeds the structural effect because it includes an active learning … expenditures and internal research expenditures. The findings are consistent with the view that learning expenditures transmit the …

laboratories, hired trained scientists, and embarked upon basic research of the kind we would associate today with academic …, organization, research and innovation, we attempt to explain the rise of corporate research. We argue that it was driven by … academic research system in the United States. Measuring field-specific scientific backwardness in several different ways, we …