types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations … research funds than academic commercialization does, but both continue to be dwarfed by public funding. We find evidence of …

from 2.4 million scientific papers written in 110 leading U.S. research universities over the period 1981-1999. We measure …, perhaps due to improvements in telecommunications. Using a panel of top university departments we find that private … universities and departments whose scientists have earned prestigious awards participate in larger teams, as do departments that …

We use data from PubMed and other sources to examine the impact of public and private research support on premature … longitudinal, cancer-site-level data on about 30 cancer sites. The estimates indicate that cancer sites about which more research …-2013, controlling for the change in the number of people diagnosed. Cancer sites for which more non-research-supported articles were …

This paper examines the U.S. government’s intramural research and development efforts over a 40-year period, drawing … pose questions for future research …

Around 1875 the U.S. had none of the world’s leading research universities; today, it accounts for the majority of the ….S. research universities had surpassed most countries’ decades before WWII. An explanation of their dominance must therefore begin … system directs at research. Our story is not one of success by design, but rather of competition leading American colleges to …

' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés … than by increasing the productivity of incumbent inventors …

” approach). We exploit a natural experiment in the widely emulated Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. From 2018 …

patent policy are few. Possible reasons for these limited results are discussed, and possible avenues for future research are …

The establishment and growth of industrial research laboratories is one of the key organizational innovations affecting … technological progress in the United States in the 20th century. In this paper, we investigate the rise of industrial research … the presence of universities dedicated to research, played a significant role in the establishment and diffusion of …