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Dancing with the Stars : Innovation Through Interactions
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
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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Scientific Teams and Institution Collaborations : Evidence from U.S. Universities, 1981-1999
Adams, James D.; Black, Grant C.; Clemmons, Roger; … - 2021
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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Commercializing Knowledge : University Science, Knowledge Capture, and Firm Performance in Biotechnology
Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R.; Armstrong, Jeff S. - 2021
opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally excludable and appropriable. Team production allows more knowledge …
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Productivity and Firm Turnover in Israeli Industry : 1979-1988
Griliches, Zvi; Regev, Haim - 2021
An analysis of a large panel data set on Israeli industrial firms finds that most of the growth in aggregate productivity comes from productivity changes within firms rather than from entry, exit, or differential growth; that firms which will exit in the future have lower productivity...
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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution
Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018
We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...
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The Impact of Information Technology on Scientists' Productivity, Quality and Collaboration Patterns
Ding, Waverly W. - 2012
This study advances the prior literature concerning the impact of information technology on productivity in academe in two important ways. First, it utilizes a dataset that combines information on the diffusion of two noteworthy and early innovations in IT -- BITNET and the Domain Name System...
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Evaluating the Role of Science Philanthropy in American Research Universities
Murray, Fiona - 2014
Philanthropy plays a major role in university-based scientific, engineering and medical research in the United States contributing over $4Billion annually to operations, endowment and buildings devoted to research. When combined with endowment income, university research funding from science...
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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2014
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,...
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Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R&D
Blume-Kohout, Margaret - 2009
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-federal (private and state/local government) sources. We use a...
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Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?
Kim, E. Han - 2006
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...
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