Research and Development at U.S. Research Universities: An Analysis of Scope Economies
| dc.creator | Kim, Kwansoo | |
| dc.creator | Barham, Bradford L. | |
| dc.creator | Chavas, Jean-Paul | |
| dc.creator | Foltz, Jeremy D. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:11:03Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T03:26:43Z | |
| dc.description | This paper investigates the presence and sources of economies of scope in R&D production at U.S. research universities. The analysis evaluates the tradeoffs or synergies arising between traditional university research outputs (articles and doctorates) and a more recent and burgeoning output: academic patents. Using a shortage function, we propose a decomposition of economies of scope (decomposition which includes complementarity effects and scale effects). R&D input and output data from 92 public and private research universities are used to obtain non-parametric estimates of scope economies. The results show significant variations in economies of scope and sources by size and type of university. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.19147 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/19147/files/sp05ba04.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/19147 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/532677 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/19147 | |
| dc.title | Research and Development at U.S. Research Universities: An Analysis of Scope Economies | |
| dc.type | Text |