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Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations Beyond COVID Vaccines?

D'Souza, Arielle; Hoyt, Kendall; Snyder, Christopher M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...

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Do Funding Agencies Select and Enable Risky Research : Evidence from ERC Using Novelty as a Proxy of Risk Taking

Veugelers, Reinhilde; Wang, Jian; Stephan, Paula E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Concern exists that public funding of science is increasingly risk averse. Funders have addressed this concern by soliciting the submission of high-risk research to either regular or specially designed programs. Little evidence, however, has been gathered to examine the extent to which such...

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Innovation Market Failures and the Design of New Climate Policy Instruments

Armitage, Sarah C.; Bakhtian, Noël; Jaffe, Adam B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …

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Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment

Mezzanotti, Filippo; Simcoe, Timothy S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding … pattern is consistent with an important role for technological competition in R&D financing decisions …

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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding

Cruz Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...

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NIH Grant Expansion, Ancestral Diversity and Scientific Discovery in Genomics Research

Fu, Wei; Chou, Shin-yi; Wang, Li-San - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In the approaching era of genomic medicine, the underrepresentation of minority populations in human genetics and genomics research has raised growing concerns regarding the distributive justice in the translation of biomedical innovations into human health across populations. Quantitative...

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Uncertainty and Individual Discretion in Allocating Research Funds

Goldstein, Anna P.; Kearney, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

There is a long-standing tradition in public research funding agencies of distributing funds via peer review, which aggregates evaluations of proposed research ideas from a group of external experts. Despite complaints that this process is biased against novel ideas, there is poor understanding...

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Government as Venture Capitalists in AI

Beraja, Martin; Peng, Wenwei; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Venture capital plays an important role in funding and shaping innovation outcomes, characterized by investors' deep … and innovation community. China, in its pursuit of global leadership in AI innovation and technology, has set up …-led venture capital funds combine features of private venture capital with traditional government innovation policies. In this …

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The Government Patent Register : A New Resource for Measuring U.S. Government-Funded Patenting

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We introduce new historical administrative data identifying U.S. government-funded patents since the early twentieth century. In addition to the funding agency, the data report whether the government has title to the patent ("title" patents) or funded a patent assigned to a private organization...

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Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment

Frankel, Alex; Krieger, Joshua L.; Li, Danielle; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine the role of spillover learning in shaping the value of exploratory versus incremental R&D. Using data from drug development, we show that novel drug candidates generate more knowledge spillovers than incremental ones. Despite being less likely to reach regulatory approval, they are...

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