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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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University Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups
Chukumba, Celestine O.; Jensen, Richard A. - 2021
This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start-up firm rather than an established firm. The model predicts that university inventions are more likely to occur in start-ups when the technology transfer officers (TTOs) search cost...
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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
This paper explores recent trends in the size of scientific teams and in institutional collaborations. The data derive from 2.4 million scientific papers written in 110 leading U.S. research universities over the period 1981-1999. We measure team size by the number of authors on a scientific...
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Academic Engagement, Commercialization, and Scholarship : Empirical Evidence from Agricultural and Life Scientists at U.S. Land-Grant Universities
Barham, Bradford; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Melo, Ana Paula - 2021
This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing,...
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The Challenge to U.S. Leadership in High-Technology Industries (Can the United States Maintain its Lead? Should it Try?)
McCulloch, Rachel - 2021
The United States emerged from World War II as the acknowledged global leader in basic science and its industrial application. While U.S. science has been able to maintain that preeminence in most areas, the nation's technological lead has met increasingly formidable challenges from abroad....
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Early Academis Science and the Birth of Industrial Research Laboratories in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
MacGarvie, Megan; Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2022
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 laboratories in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry...
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The Structure and Performance of U.S. Research Joint Ventures : Inferences and Implications from the Advanced Technology Program
Link, Albert - 2017
Research Joint Ventures (RJVs) are projects that combine the research resources of different firms. A sample of RJVs supported by the U.S. Advanced Technology Program shows that the projects yield revenues that are far less than costs. Related to this point, the RJVs are subject to...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065939
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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 … commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We … find that the US system is less conducive to entrepreneurship than the Swedish system if established firms have some …
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