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Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D

Babina, Tania - 2018

This paper studies how corporate research and development (R&D) investment affects labor mobility. We use employer-employee matched data in ordinary least squares and instrumental variables analyses to assess four hypotheses. R&D has no effect on worker retention, exit from employment, or...

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Does Gender Matter for Promotion in Science? Evidence from Physicists in France

Mairesse, Jacques - 2020

In this study, we investigate what are the factors of the promotion of female and male scientists at the French Institute of Physics (INP) at CNRS, one of the largest European public research organizations. We construct a long panel of INP physicists combining various data sources on their...

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The Role of Assets In Place : Loss of Market Exclusivity and Investment

Higgins, Matthew J. - 2020

We utilize a novel identification strategy to analyze the impact of assets in place on firms' decisions for future projects. We exploit the context in the pharmaceutical industry, where the loss of market exclusivity for a branded drug can be used to separate the impact of cash flows generated...

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Inventing the Endless Frontier : The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-war Innovation

Gross, Daniel P. - 2020

During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: the newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to two orders of magnitude...

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From Imitation to Innovation : Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?

König, Michael - 2020

two strategies toward that end: imitation and innovation. The theory bears predictions about the evolution of the …

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Housing

Kung, Edward - 2020

In this chapter, I discuss innovation and entrepreneurship in residential real estate and construction (housing). Based … major innovation trends in housing: the growth of the internet as a tool for housing search, and the development of home … comparison to residential real estate, there appears to have been less recent innovation in residential construction. In many …

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Private and Social Returns to R&D : Drug Development and Demographics

Benmelech, Efraim; Eberly, Janice C.; Krieger, Joshua L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Investment in intangible capital--in particular, research and development--increased dramatically since the 1990s. However, productivity growth remains sluggish in recent years. One potential reason is that a significant share of the increase in intangible investment is geared toward consumer...

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COVID-19 Disruptions Disproportionately Affect Female Academics

Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchkov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent countermeasures, such as school closures, the shift to working from home, and social distancing are disrupting economic activity around the world. As with other major economic shocks, there are winners and losers, leading to increased...

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Does Scientist Immigration Harm US Science? An Examination of Spillovers

Agrawal, Ajay - 2018

The recruitment of foreign scientists enhances US science through an expanded workforce but could also cause harm by displacing better connected domestic scientists, thereby reducing localized knowledge spillovers. We develop a model in which a sufficient condition for the absence of overall...

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Crowdfunding Scientific Research

Sauermann, Henry - 2018

Crowdfunding may provide much-needed financial resources, yet there is little systematic evidence on the potential of crowdfunding for scientific research. We first briefly review prior research on crowdfunding and give an overview of dedicated platforms for crowdfunding research. We then...

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