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Research grants, sources of ideas and the effects on academic research

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - 2012

Based on a sample of research units in science and engineering at German universities, this study reports survey evidence showing that research grants impact research content. Research units that receive funds from industry are more likely to source ideas from the private sector. The higher the...

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Measuring Residential Energy Efficiency Improvements with DEA

Grösche, Peter - 2008

This paper measures energy efficiency improvements of US single-family homes between 1997 and 2001 using a two-stage procedure. In the first stage, an indicator of energy efficiency is derived by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and the analogy between the DEA estimator and traditional...

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Research efficiency in manufacturing: an application of DEA at the industry level

Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - 2009

This paper analyzes research efficiency at the industry level in manufacturing for 13 European member and four nonmember countries during 2000 and 2004. A unique dataset was compiled that matches patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) to industry-specific R&D inputs from EU...

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Incentives for Academic Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance: Sweden and the United States

Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - 2000

sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the … commercialization of research, is widely discussed. The purpose of this paper is to compare academic entrepreneurship in the US and … entrepreneurship compared to its Swedish counterpart despite large levels of R&D spending and comprehensive government support schemes …

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Project-based Funding and Novelty in University Research – Findings from Finland and the UK

Pelkonen, Antti – Thomas - 2014

While societal expectations for university research have grown, university research has become more and more dependent on external funding sources. External funding has substantially increased at Finnish – and also UK – universities, and currently in practice a major share of university...

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Universities, Funding Systems, and the Renewal of the Industrial Knowledge Base – UNI Project Findings

Luukkonen, Terttu - 2014

An important prerequisite for the renewal of Finland’s industrial and economic base is the ability of the universities to promote the renewal of the knowledge base. The UNI project studied ways in which changes in external funding mechanisms and recent governance changes in Finnish...

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Life-cycle, effort and academic deadwood

Chen, Yu-Fu - 2010

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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity

Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2010

University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private sector firms increasingly seek direct access through funding public R&D. This development, however, spurred concerns about possible negative long-run effects on scientific...

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The cost efficiency of German banks: a comparison of SFA and DEA

Koetter, Michael; Karmann, Alexander; Fiorentino, Elisabetta - 2006

We investigate the consistency of efficiency scores derived with two competing frontier methods in the financial economics literature: Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analysis. We sample 34,192 observations for all German universal banks and analyze whether efficiency measures yield...

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10 ЛЕТ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИХ ПРЕОБРАЗОВАНИЙ В СЕЛЬСКОМ ХОЗЯЙСТВЕ УКРАИНЫ – АНАЛИЗ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ И ПРОДУКТИВНОСТИ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙ...

Lissitsa, Aleksej; Odening, Martin; Babiéceva, Tamara - 2003

"Дискуссионные материалы" анализируют изменение эффективности и общей продуктивности факторов (англ. total factor productivity, TFP) крупных сельскохозяйственных...

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