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Evaluating the Role of Science Philanthropy in American Research Universities
Murray, Fiona - 2014
income, university research funding from science philanthropy is $7Billion a year. This major contribution to U.S. scientific … in this paper demonstrates that science philanthropy provides almost 30% of the annual research funds of those in leading … universities. And yet science philanthropy has been largely overshadowed by the massive rise of Federal research funding and, to a …
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 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066279
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158024
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Standing on Academic Shoulders : Measuring Scientific Influence in Universities
Adams, James D.; Clemmons, Roger; Stephan, Paula E. - 2021
main fields that classify the data cover nearly all of science; and the time period is 1981-1999. Altogether the database … suggest that knowledge spillovers in basic science research are important, but are circumscribed by field and by intrinsic …
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Inventor Moral Hazard in University Licensing : The Role of Contracts
Dechenaux, Emmanuel - 2015
We examine commonly observed forms of payment, such as milestones, royalties, or consulting contracts as ways of engaging inventors in the development of licensed inventions. Our theoretical model shows that when milestones are feasible, royalties are not optimal unless the licensing firm is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750133
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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 … faculty attitudes toward science and commercial activity shape involvement in UIR. Significant differences also stem from … university level effects and may be contingent on culture, history, location, and quality of science …
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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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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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The Contribution of Chinese Diaspora Researchers to Global Science and China's Catching Up in Scientific Research
Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022
country – to China's catching up in global science to become a world leader in research publications and citations. Using a … author. Through those pathways, diaspora research contributed to China’s 2000-2015 catch-up in science and to global science …
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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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