Distribution of Research Performance Across Australian Universities, 1992-2003, and Its Implications for Higher Education Funding Models

The authors contribute to the debate on research performance by comparing the distribution of
research inputs and outputs across Australian universities during 1992-2003. Research-input measures have remained relatively unevenly distributed across universities.

Labour Mobility of Academic Inventors: Career Decision and Knowledge Transfer

This paper focuses on university inventors mobility in the EU countries. It is the first quantitative assessment of this phenomenon and is the basis for a set of econometric models that try to explain how different factors affect the mobility of academics and their choices: to stay, to move to the private sector, to move to a different public research organisation (including another university).

Research Joint Ventures, Licensing, and Industrial Policy

This paper reconsiders the explanation of R&D subsidies by Spencer and Brander (1983) and others by allowing firms to license their innovations and to pool their R&D investments. The authors show that in equilibrium R&D joint ventures are formed and licensing occurs in a way that eliminates the strategic benefits of R&D investment in the export oligopoly game.

How to Allocate R&D (and Other) Subsidies: An Experimentally Tested Policy Recommendation

This paper evaluates how R&D subsidies to the business sector are typically awarded. The authors identify two sources of ineciency: the selection based on a ranking of individual projects, rather than complete allocations, and the failure to induce competition among applicants in order to extract and use information about the necessary funding.