institutional variables, such as legal origin and patent protection, in order to allow for parameter heterogeneity based on a …

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

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 …

commercially oriented? Using a Herfindahl-type measure of patent assignee concentration and employing a difference …

Scientific knowledge is believed to be the wellspring of innovation. Historically, firms have also invested in research … to fuel innovation and growth. In this paper, we document a shift away from scientific research by large corporations … also find that the value attributable to scientific research has dropped, whereas the value attributable to technical …

star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm …" in the firm's labs. As a result, star collaborations in Japan are less localized around their research" universities so …

This paper presents the results of a study of the determinants of research productivity in the pharmaceutical industry …. Using disaggregated, internal firm data at the research program level from ten major pharmaceutical companies, we find no … evidence of increasing returns to scale at either the firm or the research program level. However our results suggest that …

This paper is an attempt to assess the existence and magnitude of local research spillovers in France. We rely on the …

This paper describes flows of basic research through the U.S. economy and explores their implications for scientific … basic research flows than was previously available. Basic research flows are high within petrochemicals and drugs and within … limited to software and communications. In general, basic research flows are more concentrated within scientific fields than …