studies have analyzed characteristics of science and scientific research. However, the motivations of nations to produce … scientific research are elusive. Firstly, this study reviews the concept of science in literature and suggests a new general … induce nations to perform scientific research and produce science advances, such as the goal of power, wealth, technological …

A major source of research funding for university professors are competitive research grants. With focus on Luxembourg …, we present results from a difference-in-difference analysis which show that research grants by the Luxembourg National … Research Fund (FNR), the central research funding agency in Luxembourg, increase the scientific output of university professors …

We analyze a competitive research-oriented public program established in Spain, the Ramon y Cajal Program, intended to … offer contracts in public research centers to high-quality researchers. We study the effects of the Program on the ex …

soliciting the submission of high-risk research to either regular or specially designed programs. Little evidence, however, has … out to study this using data from the European Research Council (ERC), a program within the EC, established in 2007 to … support high-risk/high-gain research. We examine whether the ERC selected researchers with a track record of conducting risky …

During World War II, the U.S. Committee on Medical Research (CMR) undertook an integrated, cross-sectoral effort to … research. Using data on all CMR research contracts, we show that although it had mixed results during the war, it left a large … imprint on the postwar U.S. biomedical innovation system. Research areas it supported experienced rapid growth in postwar …

Austrian Research Promotion Agency, allows me to examine the effect of research grants on firms' patenting outcomes. My … estimates suggest that a government research grant increases the propensity to file a patent application with the European …

Research which explores unchartered waters has a high potential for major impact but also carries a higher uncertainty … of having impact. Such explorative research is often described as taking a novel approach. This study examines the … complex relationship between pursuing a novel approach and impact. Viewing scientific research as a combinatorial process, we …

Leveraging a new measure of patent citation trees (Corredoira & Banerjee, 2015), we demonstrate that research funded by … of long term patent influence and stem primarily from research conducted at universities and academic medical centers …