The effect of government contracting on academic research: Does the source of funding affect scientific output?

Goldfarb, Brent

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2007.07.011

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“…According to Goldfarb (2008), the objectives of sponsors influence the research results and their publications and subsequent citations. However, the growing involvement of universities in commercialization activities has also attracted more attention to academic patenting and to extent stimulated academic patenting ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Government Funding Have the Same Impact on Academic Publications and Patents? The Case of Nanotechnology in Canada

Tahmooresnejad

Beaudry

2015

Int. J. Innov. Mgt.

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University patenting has become an important research outcome in the past few decades. There has been an increase in the number of faculty patents and individual scientists listed as inventors on patent applications. The effective allocation of funding to universities is of great concern to policymakers. In this paper, we evaluate whether an increase in government funding for academic scientists enhances the performance of researchers in both scientific publications and academic patents or if this merely increases publications in the academic realm. We provide summary statistics from nanotechnology data in Quebec, compare it with other provinces in Canada, and build econometric models of various publication, patenting and grant databases. The analysis illustrates the strong relationship between funding and publication productivity as well as the citation impact of publications. In the light of research performance in patenting activities of academic researchers, this empirical study finds a strong influence on the number of patents. Moreover, increased funding appears to strengthen the citation impact of patents in Quebec, which affects the citation impact of patenting activities.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Does Government Funding Have the Same Impact on Academic Publications and Patents? The Case of Nanotechnology in Canada

Tahmooresnejad

Beaudry

2015

Int. J. Innov. Mgt.

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“…At the same time, industry funding appears to slow down or delay the diffusion of knowledge by imposing secrecy on the research findings or withholding information on the research process (Campbell et al 2000;Sismondo 2009). Confronted with these effects, it seems that researchers develop different coping strategies that consist in embracing the collaborative arrangement and its specific incentive structure due to a lack of outside options (Goldfarb 2008); actively counteracting the biasing effects of industrial funding (Murray 2010); or avoiding this type of collaboration altogether (Owen-Smith and Powell 2004).…”

Section: Targeting Changes In the Funding Of Sciencementioning

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Changing Funding Arrangements and the Production of Scientific Knowledge: Introduction to the Special Issue

Gläser

Velarde

2018

Minerva

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With this special issue, we would like to promote research on changes in the funding of the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Since funding secures the livelihood of researchers and the means to do research, it is an indispensable condition for almost all research; as funding arrangements are undergoing dramatic changes, we think it timely to renew the science studies community's efforts to understand the funding of research. Changes in the governance of science have garnered considerable attention from science studies and higher education research; however, the impact of these changes on the conduct and content of research has not received sufficient attention, and theoretical insights into the connections between funding practices and research practices are few and far between. The aim of this special issue is to contribute to our theoretical understanding of the changing nature of research funding and its impact on the production of scientific knowledge. More specifically, we are interested in the interplay between funding and research practices: What is the impact of institutionalised funding arrangements on the production of scientific knowledge?

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“…However, who sponsors the research and how the research funding is channelled to the academic researcher can have a major influence on the balance between excellence and utility of research activities. There are two main types of funding for research: competitive funding and contract funding [3,10,11]. Competitive funding refers to public funding awarded to scientists by national science ministries, research councils or international institutions (e.g.…”

Section: Relationship Between Research Funding and Involvement In Conmentioning

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“…Contract funding is usually shorter term than grant funding, and generally involves more applied than fundamental or basic research. Geuna [10] and Goldfarb [11] argue that the increased importance of the contract channel for funding research, in part is a response to pressure from policy makers for scientific research to be more relevant and more oriented to socially useful goals. Although contract funded research involves knowledge creation and scientific production, its main objective is satisfy the research sponsor's goals, which may not necessarily require scientific excellence.…”

Section: Relationship Between Research Funding and Involvement In Conmentioning

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The relationship between research funding and academic consulting: An empirical investigation in the Spanish context

D’Este

Rentocchini

Grimaldi

et al. 2013

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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The effect of government contracting on academic research: Does the source of funding affect scientific output?

Cited by 148 publications

References 19 publications

Does Government Funding Have the Same Impact on Academic Publications and Patents? The Case of Nanotechnology in Canada

Does Government Funding Have the Same Impact on Academic Publications and Patents? The Case of Nanotechnology in Canada

Changing Funding Arrangements and the Production of Scientific Knowledge: Introduction to the Special Issue

The relationship between research funding and academic consulting: An empirical investigation in the Spanish context

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