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Peer effects and academics’ industry involvement : the moderating role of age on professional imprinting

Aschhoff, Birgit; Grimpe, Christoph - 2012

, 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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What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014

Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and increase regional disparities. The age-creativity link is however far from clear at the aggregate level. Contributing to this debate, we estimate the causal effect of the workforce...

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Flying the nest : how the home department shapes researchers’ career paths

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - 2015

This paper studies the importance of the socialization environment – nest – for the career destinations of early career researchers. In a sample of research groups in the fields of science and engineering at universities in Germany, we identify research orientation, output, funding as well...

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Scientific excellence and extramural research grants : beggars can’t be choosers?

Grimpe, Christoph - 2010

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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Churning of R&D personnel and innovation

Müller, Kathrin; Peters, Bettina - 2010

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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Informal university technology transfer : a comparison between the United States and Germany

Grimpe, Christoph; Fier, Heide - 2009

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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Is there a trade-off between academic research and faculty entrepreneurship? : evidence from U.S. NIH supported biomedical researchers

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - 2009

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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Up or out: research incentives and career prospects of postdocs in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Schulze, Ute - 2012

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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Value for money? : new microeconometric evidence on public R&D grants in Flanders

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - 2012 - This version: March 2012

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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Delay and secrecy : does industry sponsorship jeopardize disclosure of academic research?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Grimpe, Christoph; Toole, Andrew A. - 2011

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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