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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege

Damsgaard, Erika Farnstrand; Thursby, Marie C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

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,...

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Technology, Trade, and Wages

Adams, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

same, not oppo- site effect on wages at both skill levels; a rise in the foreign share in world innovation or US patents … decreases US wages; an increase in the US share in world innovation or US patents raises US wages, especially for the less … skilled; and the stock of world innovation and US patents decreases real wages especially for the less skilled. Turning to the …

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The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector

Adams, James; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper presents new evidence on research and teaching productivity in universities using a panel of 102 top U.S. schools during 1981-1999. Faculty employment grows at 0.6 percent per year, compared with growth of 4.9 percent in industrial researchers. Productivity growth per researcher is...

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Inventor Moral Hazard in University Licensing: The Role of Contracts

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Thursby, Jerry; Thursby, Marie C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

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...

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Specific and General Information Sharing Among Academic Scientists

Haeussler, Carolin; Jiang, Lin; Thursby, Jerry; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We provide theoretical and empirical evidence on the factors that influence the willingness of academic scientists to share research results. We distinguish between two types of sharing, specific sharing in which a researcher shares her data or materials with another and general sharing in which...

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Science and Industry: Tracing the Flow of Basic Research through Manufacturing and Trade

Adams, James; Clemmons, Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper describes flows of basic research through the U.S. economy and explores their implications for scientific output at the industry and field level. The time period is the late 20th century. This paper differs from others in its use of measures of science rather than technology. Together...

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Scientific Teams and Institution Collaborations: Evidence from U.S. Universities, 1981-1999

Adams, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

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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The NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database: Form, Nature, and Function

Adams, James; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This article is a guide to the NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database, which includes more than 2.5 million scientific publications and over 21 million citations to those papers. The data cover an important sample of 110 top U.S. universities and 200 top U.S.-based R&D-performing firms...

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Patents as Signals for Startup Financing

Conti, Annamaria; Thursby, Jerry; Thursby, Marie C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We examine the role of patents as signals used to reduce information asymmetries in entrepreneurial finance. A theoretical model gives conditions for a unique separating equilibrium in which startup founders file for patents to signal invention quality to investors, as well as appropriating...

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How Rapidly Does Science Leak Out?

Adams, James; Stephan, Paula E.; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

In science as well as technology, the diffusion of new ideas influences innovation and productive efficiency. With this …

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