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German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...
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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 activities … research councils, universities, and government undertaken work on civil and military R&D. To evaluate these questions we use … data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence …
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Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and … that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that … a way that is consistent with the notion that propinquity is good for business; if a firm supplies a research grant at a …
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funding on the ratio between innovative sales and innovative expenditures (innovative productivity) is estimated using a … public support with respect to innovative performance. Results show that innovative productivity is negatively affected by …
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(viii) clusters enhance collaboration, patents and productivity. Key problems for economic policy advice are that the …
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Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an overarching theoretical model to explain the conditions under which government subsidies create positive additionalities on private R&D investment. In this paper, we present a...
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levels and rather for management jobs than for jobs in research and development. This is true for the whole chemical sector …
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Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly … significant effects on value added or labor productivity. We further show that these overall results are primarily driven by firms …
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We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty … by these scholars and the number of times each of these articles has been subsequently cited in published research … articles. We find that research influence, as measured by various measures of total citations, is a surprisingly strong …
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We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by oneメs peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the...
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