Government contracting is rife with miscommunication and misperception, sometimes unavoidably, and is often associated with secrecy, autarky, and opportunism. These qualities undermine trust, increase contracting costs, and reduce effective collaboration between business and government. In this...

What do we learn from this? In the first place, the results presented here do tend to confirm the Breneman hypothesis. This may be of some practical interest to anyone concerned with financing Ph.D. granting institutions, e.g., if one is interested in efficient use of the student input, one...