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Three essays in the economics of technological change.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three essays in the economics of technological change./
Author:	Goldfarb, Brent Daniel.
Description:	151 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Nathan Rosenberg.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-01A.
Subject:	Economics, Agricultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3038095
ISBN:	0493517669

Three essays in the economics of technological change.
Goldfarb, Brent Daniel.

Three essays in the economics of technological change. - 151 p.

Adviser: Nathan Rosenberg.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2002.

<italic>Essay 1</italic>. The recent interest in the university-industry interface reflects a proliferation of industry funding of academic research activity. The debate suffers from a misunderstanding of both problems associated with the grant mechanism, as well as the nature of Federal funding of academic research in general. Exploiting a novel dataset that tracks the careers of academic engineers and their relationships with an applied sponsor, I find that (a) researchers who maintain a relationship with the directed sponsor experience a 25% decrease in publications implying that academics' careers may be a function of the type of funding received, not only talent, (b) research funds commonly go to researchers who produce results of moderate academic value, (c) if sponsors wish to entice academically-reputable researchers to work on applied problems, the grant-mechanism alone is inadequate, suggesting that the use of mechanisms such as equity by corporate sponsors are attempts to hold the interest of top researchers, (d) citation and publication measures of academic output are often not useful proxies of short-term commercial or social value.

ISBN: 0493517669Subjects--Topical Terms:

626648
Economics, Agricultural.

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520 $a <italic>Essay 1</italic>. The recent interest in the university-industry interface reflects a proliferation of industry funding of academic research activity. The debate suffers from a misunderstanding of both problems associated with the grant mechanism, as well as the nature of Federal funding of academic research in general. Exploiting a novel dataset that tracks the careers of academic engineers and their relationships with an applied sponsor, I find that (a) researchers who maintain a relationship with the directed sponsor experience a 25% decrease in publications implying that academics' careers may be a function of the type of funding received, not only talent, (b) research funds commonly go to researchers who produce results of moderate academic value, (c) if sponsors wish to entice academically-reputable researchers to work on applied problems, the grant-mechanism alone is inadequate, suggesting that the use of mechanisms such as equity by corporate sponsors are attempts to hold the interest of top researchers, (d) citation and publication measures of academic output are often not useful proxies of short-term commercial or social value.
520 $a <italic>Essay 2</italic>. A comparison of policies pursued in Sweden and the US in the commercialization of university R&D is made. We argue that Sweden's lackluster performance in commercialization is due to the top-down nature of Swedish policies aimed at commercializing these innovations and an academic environment that discourages academics from participating in commercialization. In the US, Academics have significantly more freedom to interact with industry.
520 $a <italic>Essay 3</italic>. Past study of the diffusion of pervasive technologies, has ignored the varied technological challenges in their application. I examine the diffusion of the electric motor in three industries: automobile manufacture, printing and paper-making. I establish that the technological difficulty of adapting the motor to particular tasks and the difficulty in reorganizing the production process has central explanatory power in the order of adoption. Significant variation in adoption rates can be found not only between industries, but also between different processes within industries and firms. The analysis suggests that an understanding of diffusion patterns of new technologies is highly dependent on an understanding of their varied uses.
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