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Conveying Quality and Value in Emerging Industries : Star Scientists and the Role of Learning in Biotechnology

Higgins, Matthew J. - 2008

Managers of private entrepreneurial firms face obstacles in raising capital both in placing a value on a firm and conveying value to investors. These problems are exacerbated when the firm is small, has limited assets (except for human capital) and has yet to have a lead product. In such cases...

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Twins or Strangers? Differences and Similarities between Industrial and Academic Science

Sauermann, Henry - 2010

research is a significant predictor of other dimensions such as the use of patenting and publishing, it does not fully explain … contrast the two sectors along four key dimensions: (1) the nature of research (e.g., basic versus applied); (2) organizational … academic institutions and private firms. Building on prior work that has emphasized different "research missions", we also …

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How Rapidly Does Science Leak Out?

Adams, James D. - 2006

In science as well as technology, the diffusion of new ideas influences innovation and productive efficiency. With this as motivation we use citations to scientific papers to measure the diffusion of science through the U.S. economy. To indicate the speed of diffusion we rely primarily on the...

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The Impact of Information Technology on Scientists' Productivity, Quality and Collaboration Patterns

Ding, Waverly W. - 2009

innovations in IT -- BITNET and the Domain Name System (DNS) -- with career history data on research-active life scientists. This … research design allows for proper identification of the availability of access to IT as well as a means to directly identify …: counts, quality, and co-authorship. Our analysis of a random sample of 3,771 research-active life scientists from 430 U …

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