Productivity and financial support in academic bioscience

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 2817-2826

  Nag, Sharmistha ^a   Yang, Hui ^b   Buccola, Steven ^c   Ervin, David ^d  

^a National Council of Applied Economic Research   (India)

^b Bank of America Corp   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biotechnology; research management; science funding; science productivity

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FINANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; RETURNS TO SCALE;

EID: 84862297549     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.676737     Document Type: Article

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