Funding the seeds of radical innovation in academia
Albert Banal-Estañol, Inés Macho-Stadler and David Pérez-Castrillo show that if we want to avoid missing the next academic Beatles, we cannot just “let it be.”
Topic Archive: Research and Development
Dynamics of scientific evolution: How do luminaries influence the vitality of science?
Pierre Azoulay, Christian Fons-Rosen, and Joshua Graff Zivin examine how the death of 452 star scientists, who passed away while at the peak of their scientific abilities, affected the direction of scientific knowledge.
Hail the gatekeepers!
Yael Hochberg, Carlos Serrano, and Rosemarie Ziedonis estimate the effect of patent trading activity on the rate of startup lending and the role of venture capital in accessing lending markets.
Endogeneous Matching in University-Industry Collaboration: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the UK
Albert Banal-Estañol, Inés Macho-Stadler, and David Pérez-Castrillo study collaboration between academics and firms. They are the first to provide a one-to-one two-sided matching market model of academic researchers and firms developing research projects.
