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June 21, 2019
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Government-Funded Research Increasingly Fuels Innovation

By: Lee Fleming, Hillary Greene, Guan-Cheng Li, Matt Marx and Dennis Yao

01 Dec 2010
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Chaotic Funding Derails Research

time to consider the devastating implications of this chaotic funding environment. And to do that, one needs to understand how a modern research lab operates. A typical lab has twenty to forty people, led by a senior View Details

Keywords: William Sahlman; Science funding; stem cell research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

November 2012
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CSIRO: The Light Metals Flagship Decision

By: Willy Shih, Margaret P. Pierson and Dawn Lau

This case explores the challenge of investing in basic research as a public good. CSIRO was Australia's leading science and research agency, and it was chartered to enhance national prosperity through R&D. Its Flagships program was designed to align research interests... View Details

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12 Nov 2019
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Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

receive government help. The results held even when researchers compared patents that involved similar technology, were filed around the same time, or had a similar number of inventors. In those cases, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Jan 2011
Op-Ed

Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress

In light of the latest developments of the on-again, off-again, on-again government funding of human embryonic stem-cell research, it is time to consider the devastating implications of this chaotic funding environment. And to do that, one needs to understand how a... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical

02 Dec 2014
News

The Gift That Keeps Giving

2023
Working Paper

Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries

By: Daniel P. Gross and Maria P. Roche

Government R&D programs have a long history in supporting industry development, yet their impacts are often overlooked in strategy research. We examine how a large, coordinated, government-funded effort to develop radar in World War II spawned a new high-tech industry.... View Details

Keywords: Research and Development; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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Innovation and Productivity

In this stream of research, Professor Steinwender examines how firms adjust their innovative behavior and productivity in response to changes in the external environment. Analyzing Spanish firm-level data, she finds that two mechanisms proposed in the economic... View Details

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

addition of poisonous substances to sweets and the coloring of foods for the purpose of concealing damage or inferiority. This spurred government-funded research on food-dye safety. In 1907, the US... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

contrast to the government-funded space race of the 20th century, the extent to which the ocean has been explored has been—like so much exploration in the 19th century—driven by the scientific and historical curiosities of individuals.... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

competitive global economy, US manufacturing can thrive only if it is at the leading edge of knowledge. History provides some guidelines for making sure the NNMI lives up to its potential: Have a broad agenda: Government-funded View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

Clayton Christensen. This new category of aircraft, developed out of research done in the mid-1990s by NASA and aircraft-engine manufacturers, tied in well with government-funded efforts to decrease... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

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