Arbeitspapier
Life Scientist Mobility from Academe to Industry: Does Academic Entrepreneurship Induce a Costly ?Brain Drain? on the Not-for-Profit Research Sector?
When academic researchers participate in commercialization using for-profit firms there is a potentially costly trade-off – their time and effort are diverted away from academic knowledge creation. This is a form of brain drain on the not-for-profit research sector which may reduce knowledge accumulation and adversely impact long-run economic growth. In this paper, we examine the economic significance of the brain drain phenomenon using scientist-level panel data. We identify life scientists who start or join for-profit firms using information from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and analyze the research performance of these scientists relative to a control group of randomly selected research peers. Combining our statistical results with data on the number of university spin-offs in the U.S. from 1994 to 2004 we find the academic brain drain has a nontrivial impact on knowledge creation in the not-forprofit research sector.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 07-072
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Forschungskooperation
Brain Drain
Hochschulforschung
Industrielle Forschung
Nonprofit-Organisation
Naturwissenschaftler
Arbeitsmobilität
USA
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Toole, Andrew A.
Czarnitzki, Dirk
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
- (wo)
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Mannheim
- (wann)
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2007
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Toole, Andrew A.
- Czarnitzki, Dirk
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Entstanden
- 2007
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