We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent … 1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … Office. We compare the efficacy of mobile former university scientists to the effects of mobile workers hired from other …

considering data "production" when assessing scientists' career prospects, funding applications, and research outputs. …

, however, are not uniform across scientist types: younger scientists and scientists that are more productive than their local …

grants on multiple U.S. campuses are being developed in a partnership involving researchers, university administrators …

We study the diffusion of knowledge from scientists to firms within scientific communities. We build on a unique … flights as an instrumental variable for the participation choice of scientists between a conference where a firm participates … with scientists that remain external to the firm are likely a key mechanism of this diffusion. The effects are remarkably …

science and scientists. Building on the "impressionable years hypothesis" that attitudes are durably formed during the ages 18 … reduces trust in scientists and in the benefits of their work. We also illustrate that the decline in trust is driven by the …