This paper addresses the following question: how does a higher education funding system influence the trade-off that universities make between research and teaching? The authors construct a general model that allows universities to choose actively the quality of their teaching and research when faced with different funding systems.
The aim of this paper is the realization of a Benchmark analysis about the relative position of the Valencian Innovation System. This comparison has been threefold comparing the Spanish, Mediterranean and European regions.
The paper examines the cyclical property of R&D expenditure in the context of endogenous growth, and concludes that substitutability between investing in physical capital and investing in technology/knowledge is a key of the cyclical property of R&D; basically technology shocks accompany counter-cyclical R&D and demand shocks accompany pro-cyclical R&D; and the easiest way to solve the pro-cyclical R&D puzzle is to abandon the conjecture that business cycles are generated mainly by technology shocks.
This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, the author focuses on the role of spillovers in explaining R&D cooperation.
In this paper, the authors investigate the rise of industrial research laboratories in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry between 1927 and 1946. Evidence suggests that institutional factors, namely the presence of universities dedicated to research, played a significant role in the establishment and diffusion of private pharmaceutical research laboratories.
If the best universities in the world – who have the widest choice of candidates – systematically appoint top researchers as their vice chancellors and presidents, is this one form of evidence that, on average, better researchers make better leaders? This paper addresses the first part of the question: are they currently appointing distinguished researchers? The study documents a positive correlation between the lifetime citations of a university’s president and the position of that university in a world ranking.
This paper investigates both the determinants and the impact of overseas subsidiaries R&D activities, using firm-level panel data for Japanese multinational enterprises. The evidence suggests that overseas innovative R&D aims at the exploitation of foreign advanced knowledge, and by doing so, it helps to raise the productivity of the parent firm.
This paper investigates the hypothesis that social capital is a crucial factor in explaining technological innovation in
industrial districts or, more generally, in firms’ clusters.
The authors extend the R&D cooperation model to asymmetric firms, focusing on the incentives for cooperating with firms characterized by different levels of efficiency.
The paper develops a formal model of coalition-building (“network” formation) among research units that seek competitive funding from a supra-regional program, while also drawing support from their respective regional funding agencies.