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This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing,...
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evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through … economic analyses of the sources of agricultural innovation, the challenges of measuring productivity, the role of universities …
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productivity. Competing models yield opposite predictions depending on whether the unobservable productivity is safety …-related skill or productivity generally. Using five panel waves and several new measures of worker fatality risks, first …
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To estimate the local effect of establishing land grant colleges, I compare locations that receive a land grant college to "runner-up" counties that were in contention to receive the land grant but did not for as-good-as-random reasons. I find that establishing a land grant college causes an...
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. Combining these expressions with publicly available data on salary, job titles, department affiliation, research productivity … preferences for unionization at research universities. We find that faculty with higher pay and greater research productivity are … accounting for pay and productivity, faculty in fields documented elsewhere to have more politically liberal participants are …
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attempt to raise their productivity to the level required to gain employment. Second, employers faced with an inability to …
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Due to improving information technology, the growing complexity of research problems, and policies designed to foster interdisciplinary research, the practice of science in the United States has undergone significant structural change. Using a sample of 110 top U.S. universities observed during...
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In this paper we quantify the extent and magnitude of agglomeration spillovers from a formal institution whose sole mission is the creation and dissemination of knowledge -- the research university. We use the fact that universities follow a fixed endowment spending policy based on the market...
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This paper presents new evidence on research and teaching productivity in universities using a panel of 102 top U … researchers. Productivity growth per researcher is 1.4-6.7 percent and is higher in private universities. Productivity growth per … teacher is 0.8-1.1 percent and is higher in public universities. Growth in research productivity within universities exceeds …
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frontier production function framework is used to assess the relative productivity of 113 university TTOs. Our field research … variation in TTO efficiency. Relative productivity may also depend on organizational practices in university management of …
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