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Exploring Tradeoffs in the Organization of Scientific Work: Collaboration and Scientific Reward
Bikard, Michaël; Murray, Fiona E.; Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
When do scientists and other knowledge workers organize into collaborative teams and why do they do so for some projects and not others? At the core of this important organizational choice is, we argue, a tradeoff between the productive efficiency of collaboration and the credit allocation that...
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
to fostering innovation. …
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Evaluating the Role of Science Philanthropy in American Research Universities
Murray, Fiona E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Philanthropy plays a major role in university-based scientific, engineering and medical research in the United States contributing over $4Billion annually to operations, endowment and buildings devoted to research. When combined with endowment income, university research funding from science...
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NIH Peer Review: Challenges and Avenues for Reform
Graff Zivin, Joshua; Azoulay, Pierre; Manso, Gustavo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The National Institute of Health (NIH), through its extramural grant program, is the primary public funder of health-related research in the United States. Peer review at NIH is organized around the twin principles of investigator initiation and rigorous peer review, and this combination has...
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Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms
Cohen, Lauren; Gurun, Umit; Kominers, Scott Duke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
intellectual property space. Heterogeneity in innovation, given a cost of commercialization, results in NPEs that choose to act as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887112
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Negotiating for the Market
Gans, Joshua S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
incumbents and entrants in a cumulative innovation environment; that is, entrants may not be adequately compensated for losses in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950674
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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property: Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...
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Prizes and Productivity: How Winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output
Borjas, George; Doran, Kirk B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Knowledge generation is key to economic growth, and scientific prizes are designed to encourage it. But how does winning a prestigious prize affect future output? We compare the productivity of Fields medalists (winners of the top mathematics prize) to that of similarly brilliant contenders. The...
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Patent Laws and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History
Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic … existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction - as opposed to the rate … innovations in developing countries, discourage innovation in the developing countries? This essay summarizes results of existing …
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The Effects of Research & Development Funding On Scientific Productivity: Academic Chemistry, 1990-2009
Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Ginther, Donna K.; Juhl, Ted; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This article examines the relationship between Research & Development (R&D) funding and the production of knowledge by academic chemists. Using articles published, either raw counts or adjusted for quality, we find a strong, positive causal effect of funding on knowledge production. This effect...
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