Similar Search Results

Opening Up Military Innovation : Causal Effects of 'Bottom-Up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach – soliciting a particular technology – or a bottom-up approach in which innovators suggest ideas. This paper examines a reform to the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231380

Opening up Military Innovation : Causal Effects of ‘Bottom-Up’ Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

Organizations investing in R&D must decide whether to solicit specific technologies or allow innovators to suggest ideas. Using administrative data, we study the “Open” reform to U.S. Air Force R&D procurement, which invited firms to suggest any new potentially useful technology. The new...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233325

Global collaborative patents

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561206

Opening up military innovation: causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research

Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach - soliciting a particular technology - or a bottom-up approach in which innovators suggest ideas. This paper examines a reform to the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517156

The Therapeutic Consequences of the War : World War II and the 20th-Century Expansion of Biomedicine

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

During World War II, the U.S. Committee on Medical Research (CMR) undertook an integrated, cross-sectoral effort to develop medical science and technology for war, representing the U.S. government's first substantial investment in medical research. Using data on all CMR research contracts, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015326451

Measuring the spillovers of venture capital

Schnitzer, Monika; Watzinger, Martin - 2017

We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting … activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of … spillovers, indicating that venture capital fosters the commercialization of technologies. Methodologically, we contribute by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718181