We estimate the impact of participating in the NZ Marsden Fund on research output trajectories, by comparing the … associated with a 6-15% increase in publications and a 22-26% increase in citation-weighted papers for research teams. For …

crowdfunding for scientific research. We first briefly review prior research on crowdfunding and give an overview of dedicated … platforms for crowdfunding research. We then analyze data from over 700 campaigns on the largest dedicated platform, Experiment … highlight important differences between crowdfunding and traditional funding mechanisms for research, including high use by …

Research productivity depends on the ability to discern whether an idea is promising, and a willingness to abandon the …-prize. Subsidies have a larger impact on research output, though prizes perform better when accounting for researchers' opportunity …

In 2004, Canada changed the eligibility rules for its Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SRED) tax …

industry, with uncertain effects on agricultural research. All of these factors create an urgent need for systematic empirical … evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through …

Individuals involved in basic research, like other workers, respond to incentives. Funding agencies provide implicit … responses of researchers to rules, socially optimal rules are derived. Research incentive issues have private business analogues …

About 20 percent of the gross investment expenditures of U.S. manufacturing firms is expenditures on research and …

War II. In 1940, a group of top U.S. science administrators organized a major coordinated research effort to support the … Allied war effort, including significant investments in medical research which yielded innovations like mass … appropriate R&D policy in a crisis requires going beyond the standard Nelson-Arrow framework for research policy …

in selecting awards. This process allows us to determine whether success in a future independent scientific-research … Research Service Award (NRSA), we provide evidence on the efficacy of peer review. We find that, despite all current claims to … research independence than discretion. We discover also that regression discontinuity, the econometric method typically used to …

This article examines the relationship between Research & Development (R&D) funding and the production of knowledge by …