Individuals involved in basic research, like other workers, respond to incentives. Funding agencies provide implicit … incentives when they specify the rules by which awards are made. The following analysis is an exercise in understanding … incentives at an applied level. Specific rules are examined and analyzed to determine their incentive effects. For example, what …

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

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

research output, the time and cost to completion, and the market demand for the R&D output. The model is then applied to study … the world. To address this issue, world organizations and private foundations are willing to sponsor vaccine R&D, but … there is no consensus on how to administer the sponsorship effectively. Different research incentive contracts are examined …

in the same organization. Within organizational boundaries, incentives become aligned based on repeat and future exchange …

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of …

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 …

to a resolution: World War II and the COVID-19 pandemic. After providing an overview of the main elements of each of … World War II effort and use these lessons to speculate on the potential long-run effects of the COVID-19 crisis on …