Research and Development at U.S. Research Universities: An Analysis of Scope Economies

Kwansoo Kim, Bradford L. Barham, Jean-Paul Chavas () and Jeremy Foltz

No 12674, Staff Papers from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

Abstract: This work investigates the presence and sources of economies of scope in R&D at U.S. research universities. The analysis evaluates the tradeoffs and synergies arising between traditional university research outputs (articles and doctorates) and academic patents. We propose a new measure of economies of scope based on a primal representation of the underlying technology. We derive a decomposition of economies of scope which identifies its sources (e.g., complementarity effects and scale effects). Non-parametric estimates of scope economies using R&D input and output data from 92 research universities show significant economies of scope between articles and patents, but modest complementarities.

Keywords: Research; and; Development/Tech; Change/Emerging; Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.12674

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