Data availability is arguably the greatest impediment to advancing the science of science and innovation policy and practice (SciSIPP). This paper describes the contents, methodology and use of the public online COMETS (Connecting Outcome Measures in Entrepreneurship Technology and Science)...

Using detailed data on California biotechnology, we find that the positive impact of research universities on nearby firms relates to identifiable market exchange between particular university star scientists and firms and not to generalized knowledge spillovers. Poisson and two-stage Heckman...

This paper is organized in four sections. The first section discusses research findings in the literature on university-industry technology transfer before focusing on our research on the role of star scientists in determining where and when firms enter the biotechnology industry, which firms...

In the following articles Freedman and Jordan examine institutional arrangements that promote high and rising incomes. The quality of institutions may be as important as human capital, investment, and population growth in determining which nations are most prosperous

Like the proverbial chicken and the egg, economic events and macroeconomic theory have borne an ongoing ambiguous relationship to one another. Keynes himself, in his scathing indictment of the influence of "academic scribblers" on actual policy, pointed to one such avenue of impact. George...

Almost eleven years ago to the day, Anna Schwartz and we began a detailed study of inflation under the Bretton Woods System and in the year that immediately followed its breakdown. At the time, the consensus view among economists and in a sizeable portion of the financial community was that...