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Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education? A Problem of Erosion in the Technology Transfer Base
Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education? A Problem of Erosion in the Technology Transfer Base
| dc.contributor.author | Adams, James D. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dept. of Economics | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-03-17T18:36:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-03-17T18:36:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-10-03 | en_US |
| dc.description | Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy 2009 | en_US |
| dc.description | This presentation was part of the session : Organizations of Science and Innovation | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate students, the broadening of access to universities, and the development of military research and high technology industry. Since the 1980s, however, growth of scientific research in Europe and East Asia has exceeded that of the U.S., suggesting convergence in world science and engineering and a falling U.S. share. But the slowdown of U.S. publication rates in the late 1990s is a different matter, in that the rise of science elsewhere does not in an obvious sense imply a U.S. slowdown. Using a panel of U.S. universities, fields and years, evidence is found of a slowdown in resources, which has slowed growth of research output in public universities and in university-fields falling into the middle and bottom 40 percent of their disciplines. These developments can be traced in part to slower growth in tuition and state appropriations in public universities compared to revenue growth, including from endowment, in private universities. The resulting decline in the growth rate of scientific output has eroded the technology transfer base compared to its potential or counterfactual level. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Andrew W. Mellon and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/32315 | |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | ACSIP09. Organizations of Science and Innovation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Universities | en_US |
| dc.subject | Higher education | en_US |
| dc.subject | Research | en_US |
| dc.subject | Academic wage structure | en_US |
| dc.subject | Science and engineering | en_US |
| dc.subject | Research and development | en_US |
| dc.title | Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education? A Problem of Erosion in the Technology Transfer Base | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Proceedings | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Public Policy | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy | |
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