| Titre : | Commercializing science : Is there a university "brain drain" from academic entrepreneurship? (2010) |
| Auteurs : | Andrew A. Toole, Auteur ; Dirk Czarnitzki, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
| Dans : | Management science (Vol. 56 N° 9, Septembre 2010) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 1599-1614 |
| Note générale : | Management |
| Langues : | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | 658 (Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce) |
| Tags : | Academic entrepreneurship SBIR NIH Brain drain Research productivity University mission |
| Résumé : | 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 production. This is a form of brain drain on the not-for-profit research sector that 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 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 United States from 1994 to 2004, we find the academic brain drain has a nontrivial impact on knowledge production in the not-for-profit research sector. |
| DEWEY : | 658 |
| ISSN : | 0025-1909 |
| En ligne : | http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/9/1599 |
