The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the … last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …

Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for …, public and private research, public extension, and government commodity programs have directly and indirectly caused change …

"How do university finances really work? From flagship public research universities to small, private liberal arts … university really pay for itself? Why do tuition and fees rise so fast? Why do universities lose money on research? Do most …

inventions arising out of federally-funded research and to license those patents exclusively or nonexclusively at their …

This paper explores how and why collaboration with different types of partners and the position within a research … innovative output. The paper uses a unique dataset in pharmaceutical cancer research based on scientific co-publications and new …

begins by clarifying the role of citation analysis in the evaluation of research. Next, a summary of results about the … novel methodology for the evaluation of research units is illustrated by comparing the high- and low-citation impact … other topics subject to ongoing research, it appears that this lack of universality does not preclude sensible normalization …

commercialization of research, is widely discussed. The purpose of this paper is to compare academic entrepreneurship in the US and … incentives within the university system to adjust curricula and research budgets to outside demand. Several policy measures …