conclude by offering suggestions for improving future empirical research on this issue …

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 …

For decades, the US public and private sectors have committed substantial resources towards cancer research, but the …

This paper analyzes data on a large sample of research and development (R&D) projects documented in the Defense … distributions and elasticities of cost with respect to time, by type of project (e.g. basic research, development), and discriminate …

public research by employing a newly constructed dataset that matches patents to survey data at the level of the R&D lab … knowledge flows from public research, but they appear to miss knowledge flows that are more private and contract-based in nature …, as well as those used in firm basic research. We also find that firms' patenting and citing strategies affect patent …

research - filling a selection gap and solving a disclosure problem - in fact both the selection choices of public funders and … their criteria for disclosure and commercialization shape the level and type of funding for research and the disclosures … in research. Our analysis reveals complex and unexpected relationships between public funding, private funding, and …

of the laboratories on the private economy has been little studied though their research accounts for 14% of total U.S. R …&D on industrial research using a sample of industrial laboratories. In head-to-head comparisons with alternative measures …, we find that Cooperative Research and Development Agreements or CRADAs, are the primary channel by which federal …

implementation perspective, such policies rely on public disclosure of government support for research. In this paper, we highlight … corrects for these problems. Our corrected measures suggest that under-reporting of public research support is less of an issue …

Many US federal agencies model the economic and budgetary effects of research and development (R&D) investments -- both … research literature could potentially be incorporated into the standard projections produced by various federal agencies …