In 2004, Canada changed the eligibility rules for its Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SRED) tax … credit, which provides tax incentives for R&D conducted by small private firms. Difference in difference estimates show a …

Individuals involved in basic research, like other workers, respond to incentives. Funding agencies provide implicit … incentives when they specify the rules by which awards are made. The following analysis is an exercise in understanding … incentives at an applied level. Specific rules are examined and analyzed to determine their incentive effects. For example, what …

About 20 percent of the gross investment expenditures of U.S. manufacturing firms is expenditures on research and …

country – to China's catching up in global science to become a world leader in research publications and citations. Using a … networks that connect scientific discovery in China with the rest of the world. In co-authorship, diaspora researchers are over … author. Through those pathways, diaspora research contributed to China’s 2000-2015 catch-up in science and to global science …

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of …

crowdfunding for scientific research. We first briefly review prior research on crowdfunding and give an overview of dedicated … platforms for crowdfunding research. We then analyze data from over 700 campaigns on the largest dedicated platform, Experiment … highlight important differences between crowdfunding and traditional funding mechanisms for research, including high use by …

Research productivity depends on the ability to discern whether an idea is promising, and a willingness to abandon the …-prize. Subsidies have a larger impact on research output, though prizes perform better when accounting for researchers' opportunity …

We estimate the impact of participating in the NZ Marsden Fund on research output trajectories, by comparing the … associated with a 6-15% increase in publications and a 22-26% increase in citation-weighted papers for research teams. For …