This paper describes flows of basic research through the U.S. economy and explores their implications for scientific output at the industry and field level. The time period is the late 20th century. This paper differs from others in its use of measures of science rather than technology. Together...

This paper describes flows of basic research through the U.S. economy and explores their implications for scientific output at the industry and field level. The time period is the late 20th century. This paper differs from others in its use of measures of science rather than technology. Together...

Although researchers have found that knowledgespillovers increase industrial firms' patenting and productivity, feweconomists have studied how spillovers occur and what this suggests about thebehavior and performance of firms.In the interest of examining theendogeneity of knowledge spillovers, a...