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offers an empirical examination of this question for a subpopulation of biomedical academic scientists who received research … change using individual-level panel data. We find that the biomedical scientists who eventually choose to found or join a for …
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Do academic scientists bring valuable human capital to the companies they found or join? If so, what are the particular … questions using a particular group of academic entrepreneurs biomedical research scientists who choose to commercialize their … performance that correlate with differences in the scientists' research orientations developed during their academic careers. We …
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science. Based on a sample of more than 1,000 scientists at universities and public research institutes in Germany, this paper …
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This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning as a measure for worker mobility. Churning depicts the number of workers which are replaced by new ones. It is a very informative indicator since a firm may be exposed to...
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The viability of modern open science norms and practices depend on public disclosure of new knowledge, methods, and materials. Aggregate data from the OECD show a broad shift in the institutional financing structure that supports academic research from public to private sponsorship. This paper...
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) constitute a disruption to the working environment of the inventive labor force of the acquired company. If inventors would respond with a decline of their patent productivity or departure from the firm this can be detrimental to the innovative process within the...
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between university scientists and industry personnel. Moreover, most studies are limited to the United States, where the Bay … 800 university scientists, our results show similar relationships for the United States and Germany. Faculty quality which …
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, suggesting that professional imprinting takes place in the early stages of a scientist’s academic career. Based on a sample of …), we find that scientists with industry-oriented co-authors are more likely to be involved with industry (personal peer … effect). Moreover, we find that the scientist’s involvement increases with the orientation of the scientist’s department …
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Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their career prospects. We conceptualize the career prospects of...
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A significant amount of money is spent on programs to stimulate innovative activities. In this paper, we review the effects of a specific government-sponsored commercial R&D program from various angles. We start by evaluating whether we find positive effects of subsidies on R&D investment and...
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