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Harnessing Success: Determinants of University Technology Licensing Performance

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together … with panel data on U.S. universities for 1995-99. We find that private universities are much more likely to adopt incentive …. Adopting incentive pay is associated with about 30-40 percent more income per license. Universities with strong local …

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Firm collaboration and modes of innovation in Norway

Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

.’s (2007) contention that firm innovation is both the result of ‘science, technology and innovation’ (STI) and ‘doing, using …-mode interaction (with consultants, universities, and research centres) and DUI-mode interaction, distinguishing between DUI …

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Procuring Innovation

Cabral, Luís M B; Cozzi, Guido; Denicolò, Vincenzo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

To stay on top of global competition, firms and governments often need to acquire innovative goods and services, including ideas and research, from their strategic suppliers. A careful design of procurement policy is crucial to make potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable...

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...

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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...

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Immigration and the School System

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...

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Incentives, resources and the organization of the school system

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel; Cabrales, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We study a model where student eort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. We can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside options will...

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Education and Invention

Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

counterfactual calculation suggests that establishing 3 new technical universities resulted in a 20% increase in the number of USPTO …

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Herding cats? Management and university performance

McCormack, John; Propper, Carol; Smith, Sarah L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

nearly 250 departments across 100+ UK universities. We find large differences in management scores across universities and … that departments in older, research-intensive universities score higher than departments in newer, more teaching …-oriented universities. We also find that management matters in universities. The scores, particularly with respect to provision of …

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Entrepreneurship, State Economic Development Policy, and the Entrepreneurial University

Audretsch, David B; Phillips, Ronnie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

achieve the goal of greater economic growth. We argue that state-supported research universities can be used to integrate …-level economic policies. There is an opportunity at research universities to combine the human capital talent available on faculties …

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