Hiring employees with advanced education, training, and experience has been a prevalent
human resource practice in dynamic science-based industries, and a growing body of …

We study whether increasing the share of female inventors leads to more biomedical
inventions that focus on the needs of women. After accounting for detailed disease …

Has the increase in female medical researchers led to more medical advances for women?
In this paper, we investigate if the gender of inventors shapes their types of inventions. Using …

The gender gap in science and technology has received considerable attention by both
researchers and policy makers. In an effort to better understand the quantity, quality, and …

Scientists are increasingly charged with solving complex societal, health, and environmental
problems. These systemic problems require teams of expert scientists to tackle research …

We analyze the impact of university–industry relationships on public research. Our inductive
study of university–industry collaboration in engineering suggests that basic projects are …

OVERVIEW: Joint industry-university research activity is an increasingly common form of
conducting both basic and applied research. However, successfully selecting partners and …

Traditional research on gender differences in productivity focuses on academic scientists,
and rarely investigates outcomes other than publications. We investigate gender disparities …

This paper estimates the heterogeneity in peer effects among research scientists in terms of
network position. I propose a new measure, brokerage degree, that determines the extent to …