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

Kwansoo Kim, Bradford L. Barham, Jean-Paul Chavas () and Jeremy Foltz
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Kwansoo Kim: Seoul National University
Bradford L. Barham: U of Wisconsin

Staff Paper Series from University of Wisconsin, 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.

JEL-codes: C6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-07
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