Incentives and Invention in Universities, Science, Technology and the Economy Program (STE) – Working Papers Series STE-WP-18-2003
We show that economic incentives affect the number and commercial value of inventions generated in universities. Using panel data for 102 U.S. universities during the period 1991-1999, we find that universities which give higher royalty shares to academic scientists generate more inventions and higher license income, controlling for other factors including university size, quality, research […]
Research Collaborations Between Israeli Researchers and Researchers from Abroad
This research project is a continuation and complement to a previous research conducted in the framework of the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion1. The above research made use of the computerized data bases of the Institute of Science Information (ISI), Philadelphia, U.S.A. For this purpose the Neaman Institute purchased from ISI a sub-data base […]
Research by Israeli Scientists in Israel and Abroad
The object of this research was to examine the scope of research cooperation between Israeli scientists and their colleagues abroad, and the changes that occurred during the period 1972-1984. The basic assumption was that the worsening of research conditions in the country, as a direct result of research budgets curtailment and aging of research equipment, […]