Fishing for complementarities: Competitive research funding and research productivity

Hanna Hottenrott and Cornelia Lawson

No 129, DICE Discussion Papers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)

Abstract: This paper empirically investigates complementarities between different sources of research funding with regard to academic publishing. We find for a sample of UK engineering academics that competitive funding is associated with an increase in ex-post publications but that industry funding decreases the marginal utility of public funding by lowering the publication and citation rate increases associated with public grants. However, when holding all other explanatory variables at their mean, the negative effect of the interaction does not translate into an effective decrease in publication and citation numbers. The paper also shows that the positive effect of public funding is driven by UK research council and charity grants and that EU funding has no significant effect on publication outcomes.

Keywords: Research Funding; University-Industry Collaboration; Scientific Productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L31 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Working Paper: Fishing for Complementarities: Competitive Research Funding and Research Productivity (2013)
Working Paper: Fishing for Complementarities: Competitive Research Funding and Research Productivity (2013)
Working Paper: Fishing for Complementarities: Competitive Research Funding and Research Productivity (2013)
Working Paper: Fishing for complementarities: Competitive research funding and research productivity (2013)
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