This paper investigates the impact of federal extramural research funding on total expenditures for life sciences … research and development (R&D) at U.S. universities, to determine whether federal R&D funding spurs funding from non …

I examine and document how the Endless Frontier changed the research landscape at universities and how universities … responded to the initiative. I show that the agencies it established and funded initially recruited research proposals from … universities had begun to push for more resources from the federal government for research, support for faculty salary and research …

We analyse whether research funding contests promote co-authorship. Our analysis combines Scopus publication records … with data on applications to the Marsden Fund, the premiere source of funding for basic research in New Zealand. On average …

estimates represent about 20 and 7 percent increases in research productivity for F32 and R01 recipients respectively. The … (F32s) and standard research grants (R01s). Both OLS and regression discontinuity estimates show that receipt of either … an NIH postdoctoral fellowship or research grant leads to about one additional publication over the next five years. The …

We examine the distribution of Federal support for chemistry Research and Development (R&D) performed at U ….S. universities from 1990-2009. Federal R&D funding is an essential source of funds for investigator-driven research at the nation … aggregate funding. Second, we show a strong positive association between several measures of institutional research capacity and …

War II. In 1940, a group of top U.S. science administrators organized a major coordinated research effort to support the … Allied war effort, including significant investments in medical research which yielded innovations like mass … appropriate R&D policy in a crisis requires going beyond the standard Nelson-Arrow framework for research policy …

Higher education institutions and disciplines that traditionally did little research now reward faculty largely based … on research, both funded and unfunded. Some worry that faculty devoting more time to research harms teaching and thus … unfunded research have increased. One theory is that researchers more effectively teach higher order skills and therefore …

Research which explores unchartered waters has a high potential for major impact but also carries a higher uncertainty … of having impact. Such explorative research is often described as taking a novel approach. This study examines the … complex relationship between pursuing a novel approach and impact. Viewing scientific research as a combinatorial process, we …