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Government Funding of University-Industry Collaboration : Exploring the Impact of Targeted Funding on University Patent Activity

Nugent, Annita - 2020

Government investment in university research results in greater output and impact. To better capture economic benefits … stemming from university research, governments have developed funding programs specifically targeting university … evaluate the effect of one such scheme, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project scheme, by comparing it to its …

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Citations and Incentives in Academic Contests

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2019

There are several empirical studies of ex post analysis of citations in academia. There is no ex ante analysis of citations. I consider a game-theoretic model of a contest between scholars on the basis of two widely-used measures of citations (i.e., the h-index and total citation count) and the...

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Linguistic Metrics for Patent Disclosure : Evidence from University Versus Corporate Patents

Kong, Nancy; Dulleck, Uwe; sun, shupeng; Vajjala, Sowmya; … - 2021

Encouraging inventors to disclose new inventions is an important economic justification for the patent system, yet the technical information contained in patent applications is often inadequate and unclear. This paper proposes a novel approach to measure disclosure in patent applications using...

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The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance : How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...

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State Investment in Higher Education : Effects on Human Capital Formation, Student Debt, and Long-Term Financial Outcomes of Students

Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Gorton, Nicole; Lovenheim, Michael - 2021

Most public colleges and universities rely heavily on state financial support. As state budgets have tightened in recent decades, appropriations for higher education have declined substantially. Despite concerns expressed by policymakers and scholars that the declines in state support have...

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Attracting Profit Shifting or Fostering Innovation? On Patent Boxes and R&D Subsidies

Haufler, Andreas; Schindler, Dirk - 2021

Many countries have introduced patent box regimes in recent years, offering a reduced tax rate to businesses for their IP-related income. Patent boxes are supposed to increase innovative activity, but they are also suspected to aim at attracting inward profit shifting from multinational firms....

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Stranded Assets in the Transition to a Carbon-Free Economy

van der Ploeg, Rick - 2020

Assets in the fossil fuel industries are at risk of losing market value due to anticipated breakthroughs in renewable technology and governments stepping up climate policies in the light of the Paris commitments to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius. Stranded assets arise due to...

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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment - Insights from Past Experience

Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2021

The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...

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R&D Spillovers Through RJV Cooperation

Banal-Estañol, Albert - 2020

We investigate the dimensions through which R&D spillovers are propagated across firms via cooperation through Research …

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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation : Evidence from BITNET

Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2021

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration...

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