The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy
edited by Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin F. Jones
University of Chicago Press, 2015 Cloth: 978-0-226-28672-3 | eISBN: 978-0-226-28686-0 Library of Congress Classification Q125.C435 2015 Dewey Decimal Classification 338.926
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the importance of public support for science, and the importance of science for the future of the nation. The report, Science: The Endless Frontier, set America on a path toward strong and well-funded institutions of science, creating an intellectual architecture that still defines scientific endeavor today.
In The Changing Frontier, Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin Jones bring together a group of prominent scholars to consider the changes in science and innovation in the ensuing decades. The contributors take on such topics as changes in the organization of scientific research, the geography of innovation, modes of entrepreneurship, and the structure of research institutions and linkages between science and innovation. An important analysis of where science stands today, The Changing Frontier will be invaluable to practitioners and policy makers alike.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Adam B. Jaffe is director and a senior fellow of the research institute Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, the Sir Douglas Myers Visiting Professor at Auckland University Business School, and a research associate of the NBER. Benjamin Jones is the Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor in Entrepreneurship and professor of strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is also a faculty affiliate at the Center for International Economics and Development and the Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University, where he also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Political Science. He is a research associate of the NBER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin F. Jones
I. The Organization of Scientific Research
1. Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration
Richard B. Freeman, Ina Ganguli, and Raviv Murciano- Goroff
2. The (Changing) Knowledge Production Function: Evidence from the MIT Department of Biology for 1970‒2000 49
Annamaria Conti and Christopher C. Liu
3. Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science: Evidence from Evolutionary Biology
Ajay Agrawal, John McHale, and Alexander Oettl Comment: Julia Lane
4. Credit History: The Changing Nature of Scientific Credit
Joshua S. Gans and Fiona Murray
II. The Geography of Innovation
5. The Rise of International Coinvention
Lee Branstetter, Guangwei Li, and Francisco Veloso
6. Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein
III. Entrepreneurship and Market- Based Innovation
7. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy
Ramana Nanda, Ken Younge, and Lee Fleming
8. Economic Value Creation in Mobile Applications
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Jason P. Davis, and Pai- Ling Yin
9. State Science Policy Experiments
Maryann Feldman and Lauren Lanahan
IV. Historical Perspectives on Science Institutions and Paradigms
10. The Endless Frontier: Reaping What Bush Sowed?
Paula Stephan Comment: Bruce A. Weinberg
11. Algorithms and the Changing Frontier
Hezekiah Agwara, Philip Auerswald, and Brian Higginbotham Comment: Timothy Simcoe
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
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The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy
edited by Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin F. Jones
University of Chicago Press, 2015 Cloth: 978-0-226-28672-3 eISBN: 978-0-226-28686-0
In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the importance of public support for science, and the importance of science for the future of the nation. The report, Science: The Endless Frontier, set America on a path toward strong and well-funded institutions of science, creating an intellectual architecture that still defines scientific endeavor today.
In The Changing Frontier, Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin Jones bring together a group of prominent scholars to consider the changes in science and innovation in the ensuing decades. The contributors take on such topics as changes in the organization of scientific research, the geography of innovation, modes of entrepreneurship, and the structure of research institutions and linkages between science and innovation. An important analysis of where science stands today, The Changing Frontier will be invaluable to practitioners and policy makers alike.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Adam B. Jaffe is director and a senior fellow of the research institute Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, the Sir Douglas Myers Visiting Professor at Auckland University Business School, and a research associate of the NBER. Benjamin Jones is the Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor in Entrepreneurship and professor of strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is also a faculty affiliate at the Center for International Economics and Development and the Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University, where he also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Political Science. He is a research associate of the NBER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin F. Jones
I. The Organization of Scientific Research
1. Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration
Richard B. Freeman, Ina Ganguli, and Raviv Murciano- Goroff
2. The (Changing) Knowledge Production Function: Evidence from the MIT Department of Biology for 1970‒2000 49
Annamaria Conti and Christopher C. Liu
3. Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science: Evidence from Evolutionary Biology
Ajay Agrawal, John McHale, and Alexander Oettl Comment: Julia Lane
4. Credit History: The Changing Nature of Scientific Credit
Joshua S. Gans and Fiona Murray
II. The Geography of Innovation
5. The Rise of International Coinvention
Lee Branstetter, Guangwei Li, and Francisco Veloso
6. Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity
Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein
III. Entrepreneurship and Market- Based Innovation
7. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy
Ramana Nanda, Ken Younge, and Lee Fleming
8. Economic Value Creation in Mobile Applications
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Jason P. Davis, and Pai- Ling Yin
9. State Science Policy Experiments
Maryann Feldman and Lauren Lanahan
IV. Historical Perspectives on Science Institutions and Paradigms
10. The Endless Frontier: Reaping What Bush Sowed?
Paula Stephan Comment: Bruce A. Weinberg
11. Algorithms and the Changing Frontier
Hezekiah Agwara, Philip Auerswald, and Brian Higginbotham Comment: Timothy Simcoe
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
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