| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15466 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15466 |
| Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences | |
| Pierre Azoulay; Joshua S. Graff Zivin; Gustavo Manso | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-10-29 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Despite its presumed role as an engine of economic growth, we know surprisingly little about the drivers of scientific creativity. In this paper, we exploit key differences across funding streams within the academic life sciences to estimate the impact of incentives on the rate and direction of scientific exploration. Specifically, we study the careers of investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), which tolerates early failure, rewards long-term success, and gives its appointees great freedom to experiment; and grantees from the National Institute of Health, which are subject to short review cycles, pre-defined deliverables, and renewal policies unforgiving of failure. Using a combination of propensity-score weighting and difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that HHMI investigators produce high- impact papers at a much higher rate than a control group of similarly-accomplished NIH-funded scientists. Moreover, the direction of their research changes in ways that suggest the program induces them to explore novel lines of inquiry. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15466 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573142 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Pierre Azoulay,Joshua S. Graff Zivin,Gustavo Manso. Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences. 2009. |
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| w15466.pdf（511KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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