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We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...
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In 2017, the federal government invested over $40 billion on university research; another $16 billion came from private … scientists in finding other sources of funding. Understanding the effect of such different funding streams on research outputs is … structure of research and in terms of research outputs. For example, federal funding is often intended to affect the structure …
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Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly … ; research joint venture ; research and development ; research subsidies …
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's future research output. After adjustment for a range of personal and institutional characteristics, departmental research …
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licensing offices, participation of engineering faculty, patent approvals, the volume of research funds, the number of employees …
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We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...
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This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to … regressed on several universities' research quality indicators computed from different bibliometric databases (ISI …-Thompson, Scopus-Elsevier and Google Scholar) using fixed effects-gravity models. Our estimates suggest that improving research quality …
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We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
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We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate … research output and thus provide a novel ranking measure that explicitly takes into account the spillover effect generated in …
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. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other “research … academic research councils, universities, and government undertaken work on civil and military R&D. To evaluate these questions … spillovers from public R&D spend on research councils, and (c) no evidence of market sector spillovers from public spending on …
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