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Funding Scientific Knowledge : Selection, Disclosure and the Public-Private Portfolio
Gans, Joshua S. - 2014
, paradoxical effects, providing short-term openness while stifling longer-term innovation. Implications for empirical evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068134
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Heart of Darkness : Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box
David, Paul A.; Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2021
This paper is a first step toward closing the analytical gap in the extensive literature on the results of interactions between public and private R&D expenditures, and their joint effects on the economy. Econometric studies in this area report a plethora of sometimes confusing and frequently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248400
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Economic Backwardness and Catching Up : Brazilian Agriculture, 1964–2014
Alston, Lee J. - 2016
country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … evolved from “backward” to an agricultural powerhouse. Its production and total factor productivity more than doubled. Brazil … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998943
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Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research
Roach, Michael - 2014
This paper assesses the validity and accuracy of firms' backward patent citations as a measure of knowledge flows from public research by employing a newly constructed dataset that matches patents to survey data at the level of the R&D lab. Using survey-based measures of the dimensions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065647
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An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer
Sun, Eric C. - 2018
For decades, the US public and private sectors have committed substantial resources towards cancer research, but the societal payoff has not been well-understood. We quantify the value of recent gains in cancer survival, and analyze the distribution of value among various stakeholders. Between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940684
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Using Scientific Publications to Evaluate Government R&D Spending : The Case of Energy
Popp, David - 2015
The mix of public and private research funding investments in alternative energy presents a challenge for isolating the effect of government R&D funding. Factors such as energy prices and environmental policy influence both private and public R&D decisions. Moreover, because government R&D is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018316
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Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India
Morten, Melanie - 2016
When people can self-insure via migration, they may have less need for informal risk sharing. At the same time, informal insurance may reduce the need to migrate. To understand the joint determination of migration and risk sharing I study a dynamic model of risk sharing with limited commitment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994908
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Environmental Investment and Policy with Distortionary Taxes and Endogenous Growth
Fullerton, Don; Kim, Seung-Rae - 2021
Recent studies consider public R&D spending that affects abatement knowledge and endogenous growth, distortionary taxes that affect physical and human capital formation, pollution taxes that affect environmental degradation, and regeneration that restores natural capital. Our model combines all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222070
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Privatizing R&D : Patent Policy and the Commercialization of National Laboratory Technologies
Jaffe, Adam B.; Lerner, Josh - 2021
Despite their magnitude and potential economic impact, federal R&D expenditures outside of research universities have been little scrutinized by economists. This paper examines whether the series of initiatives since 1980 that have sought to encourage the patenting and technology transfer at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232147
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The Influence of Federal Laboratory R&D on Industrial Research
Adams, James D.; Chiang, Eric P.; Jensen, Jeff - 2021
Over the past 60 years the United States has created the world's largest system of government laboratories. The impact of the laboratories on the private economy has been little studied though their research accounts for 14% of total U.S. R&D, more than the R&D of all colleges and universities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232429