Academic Research Underlying Industrial Innovations: Sources, Characteristics, and Financing
基于66家制造企业和200多位研究者的数据，揭示对产业创新贡献最大的学术研究的来源、特征和融资方式，对关注技术变革的经济学家和希望提升学术研究经济回报的政策制定者有参考价值。
There has been no systematic study of the characteristics of the universities and academic researchers that seem to have contributed most to industrial innovation. Nor do we know how such academic research has been funded. This paper, based on data obtained from 66 firms in seven major manufacturing industries and from over 200 academic researchers, sheds new light on the sources, characteristics, and financing of academic research underlying industrial innovation. The findings should be of interest to economists concerned with technological change and to policy makers attempting to increase the economic payoff from the nation's academic research.