| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24769 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24769 |
| Not in the job description: The commercial activities of academic scientists and engineers | |
| Wesley M. Cohen; Henry Sauermann; Paula Stephan | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-07-02 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Scholarly work seeking to understand academics’ commercial activities often draws on abstract notions of the academic reward system and of the representative scientist. Few scholars have examined whether and how scientists’ motives to engage in commercial activities differ across fields. Similarly, efforts to understand academics’ choices have focused on three self-interested motives – recognition, challenge, and money – ignoring the potential role of the desire to have an impact on others. Using panel data for a national sample of over 2,000 academics employed at U.S. institutions, we examine how the four motives are related to commercial activity, measured by patenting. We find that all four motives are correlated with patenting, but these relationships differ systematically between the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering. These field differences are consistent with differences across fields in the rewards from commercial activities, as well as in the degree of overlap between traditional and commercializable research, which affects the opportunity costs of time spent away from “traditional” work. We discuss potential implications for policy makers, administrators, and managers as well as for future research on the scientific enterprise. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Other ; Accounting, Marketing, and Personnel ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24769 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582442 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wesley M. Cohen,Henry Sauermann,Paula Stephan. Not in the job description: The commercial activities of academic scientists and engineers. 2018. |
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| w24769.pdf（426KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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