Grant C. Black

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore recent trends in the size of scientific teams and in institutional collaborations and find that the trend towards more geographically dispersed scientific teams accelerates beginning with papers published at the start of the 1990s, which suggests a sharp decline in the cost of collaboration.

TL;DR: The authors used the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to examine the question of who in US universities is patenting and found that patent applications were positively and significantly related to the number of publications, but the strong cross-sectional correlation that they find does not suggest that commercialization has co...

TL;DR: In this paper, an individual effects negative binomial model was used to estimate a knowledge production function for university patenting using an individual effect model and control for Research and Development expenditures, research field, and the presence of a Technology Transfer Office.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the labor market for the highly trained in nanotechnology and the response of universities toward providing training and conclude that at the present time the market is small and growing for positions in academe and at FFRDC's, small and stable for positions at firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the labor market for the highly trained in nanotechnology and the response of universities toward providing training and conclude that at the present time the market is small and growing for positions in academe and at FFRDCs, small and stable for positions at firms.