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Lost, dysfunctional or evolving? A view of business schools from Silicon Valley

Eischen, Kyle; Singh, Nirvikar - 2005

Recent articles have rekindled discussions around the direction and relevance of US business schools. The two main viewpoints are distinct but equally critical. On one hand, business schools are considered overly focused on scientific research and having lost their connection to real world and...

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Patenting Public-Funded Research for Technology Transfer: A Conceptual-Empirical Synthesis of US Evidence and Lessons for India

Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010

the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over … effectiveness of IPR as a vehicle of technology transfer from universities. We also discuss the limited evidence on Bayh-Dole type …

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Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India: Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function

Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010

In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of academic research and patenting in India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and number of research scholars) are transformed into...

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Community development venture capital: concept and status quo in Germany

Achleitner, Ann-Kristin; Braun, Reiner; Bender, Marko; … - 2008

As most other countries, Germany also faces dramatic regional differences in terms of socioeconomic development. One important driver of such development is the existence of a healthy entrepreneurial activity and the creation of new companies. We argue that venture capital (VC) and especially...

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Heterogeneity and productivity

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2015

This research explores the effects of within-group heterogeneity on group-level productivity. It establishes that observed genetic diversity of 230 worldwide ethnic groups, as well as predicted genetic diversity of 1,331 ethnic groups across the globe, has a hump-shaped effect on economic...

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The German excellence initiative and efficiency change among universities, 2001-2011

Gawellek, Bastian; Sunder, Marco - 2016

The "Excellence Initiative" is a prestigious third-party funding program for German universities, organized as a … research contest. We investigate whether universities in this program (or that prepared an application) had different trends in … terms of productivity and technical efficiency than universities that did not apply for the program, albeit these dimensions …

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Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of "gap years" between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...

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Mobility of students and quality of higher education: An empirical analysis of the "Unified Brain Drain" model

Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2013

Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the migration of individuals encompassing decisions already at the level of education. We present a unified brain drain model that incorporates the decisions of an...

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Globalization and migration: A "unified brain drain" model

Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2012

Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the migration of individuals encompassing decisions already at the level of education. We develop a unified brain drain model that incorporates the decisions of an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336067

The returns to college choice: Loans, scholarships and labor outcomes

Montoya, Ana Maria; Noton Norambuena, Carlos; Solis, Alex - 2018

To estimate causal effects of college choice, we exploit eligibility rules for student loans in a regression discontinuity design. Loan programs induce students to pursue college degrees that are more expensive and prolonged relative to technical education. Although higher education is...

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