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engineering). Star scientists publication as or with firm employees, SBIR grants received, and citation-weighted patents and …
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In this paper, we examine the determinants of control rights in technology strategic alliances between biotechnology firms and pharmaceutical corporations, as well as with other biotechnology firms. We undertake three clinical studies and an empirical analysis of 200 contracts. Consistent with...
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An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with and learning from others. This paper uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. We document key empirical facts on...
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team size by the number of authors on a scientific paper. Using this measure we find that team size increases by 50 percent … over the 19-year period. We supplement team size with measures of domestic and foreign institutional collaborations, which … capture the geographic dispersion of team workers. The time series evidence suggests that the trend towards larger and more …
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engineering workers. Among workers in engineering occupations, immigrants are the best and brightest thanks to their high … education level, enjoying a wage distribution shifted to the right of the native distribution. Among workers with an engineering …
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While it is well known that managers prefer in-person meetings for negotiating deals and selling their products, face-to-face communication may be particularly important for the transfer of technology because technology is best explained and demonstrated in person. This paper studies the role of...
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engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply that voluntary turnover dominates switching in the … market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on the allocation of engineers across a large fraction of Swedish … space and each firm has its own age-wage profile. I find that a majority of engineers have moderately high switching costs …
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engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers … establishment. The results suggest that the work of scientists and engineers in goods and services producing establishments is an … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …
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This paper assesses whether delays in obtaining permanent residency status can explain recent declines in the share of Chinese and Indian PhD graduates from US STEM programs who remain in the US after their studies. We find that newly-binding limits on permanent visas for those from China and...
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engineers, making the auto supply chain an important context in which to study engineering and innovation.Some highlights from …The questions addressed in this volume are motivated by the recognition that engineers play an important role in … generating innovation and economic growth. In this chapter, we seek to offer some description of engineering work by looking in …
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