TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic careers, patents, and productivity
T2 - Industry experience as scientific and technical human capital
AU - Dietz, James S.
AU - Bozeman, Barry
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this study comes in part from the project “Assessing Economic and Social Impacts of Basic Research Sponsored by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences” (contract DE-FG02-96ER45562), and in part from the National Science Foundation-sponsored project “Assessing R&D Projects’ Impacts on Scientific and Technical Human Capital Development” (SBR 98-18229). The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation. The opinions, findings, and conclusions contained in the paper are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Department of Energy or the National Science Foundation. We are especially grateful to Sooho Lee for his extensive work on the dataset. We are also indebted to Albert Link for his valuable comments and suggestions.
PY - 2005/4
Y1 - 2005/4
N2 - We examine career patterns within the industrial, academic, and governmental sectors and their relation to the publication and patent productivity of scientists and engineers working at university-based research centers in the United States. We hypothesize that among university scientists, intersectoral changes in jobs throughout the career provide access to new social networks and scientific and technical human capital, which will result in higher productivity. For this study, the curriculum vitae of 1200 research scientists and engineers were collected and coded. In addition, patent data were collected from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The overarching conclusion from our analysis is that the academic scientists' and engineers' research careers we studied are quite different than characterized in the research productivity literature that is a decade or more old. The wave of center creation activity that began in the early 1980s and continues today has resulted not only in greater ties between universities and industry, but also markedly different academic careers. Published by Elsevier B.V.
AB - We examine career patterns within the industrial, academic, and governmental sectors and their relation to the publication and patent productivity of scientists and engineers working at university-based research centers in the United States. We hypothesize that among university scientists, intersectoral changes in jobs throughout the career provide access to new social networks and scientific and technical human capital, which will result in higher productivity. For this study, the curriculum vitae of 1200 research scientists and engineers were collected and coded. In addition, patent data were collected from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The overarching conclusion from our analysis is that the academic scientists' and engineers' research careers we studied are quite different than characterized in the research productivity literature that is a decade or more old. The wave of center creation activity that began in the early 1980s and continues today has resulted not only in greater ties between universities and industry, but also markedly different academic careers. Published by Elsevier B.V.
KW - Academic careers
KW - Intersectoral changes in jobs
KW - Patents
KW - Research productivity
KW - Technical human capital
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U2 - 10.1016/j.respol.2005.01.008
DO - 10.1016/j.respol.2005.01.008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:18144409125
SN - 0048-7333
VL - 34
SP - 349
EP - 367
JO - Research Policy
JF - Research Policy
IS - 3
ER -