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Movement of star scientists and engineers and high-tech firm entry / Lynne G. Zucker, Michael R. Darby

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Zucker, Lynne G.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
25 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
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Darby, Michael R., 1945-
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"This paper extends the concept of star scientist to all areas of science and technology. We follow 1,838 stars' careers 1981-2004, using their publication history to locate them each year. The number of stars in a U.S. region or in one of the top-25 science and technology countries has a consistently significant and quantitatively large positive effect on the probability of firm entry in the same area of science and technology. Thus the stars themselves rather than their potentially disembodied discoveries play a key role in the formation or transformation of high-tech industries. Other measures of academic knowledge stocks have weaker and less consistent effects. We identify separate economic geography effects in poisson regressions for the 179 BEA-defined U.S. regions, but not for the 25 countries analysis. Stars become more concentrated over time, moving from areas with relatively few peers to those with many in their discipline. A special counter-flow operating on the U.S. versus the other 24 countries is the tendency of foreign-born American stars to return to their homeland when it develops sufficient strength in their area of science and technology. In contrast high impact articles and university articles and patents all tend to diffuse, becoming more equally distributed over time"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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"April 2006."
"This research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (grants SES-0304727 and SES-0531146) and the University of California's Industry-University Cooperative Research Program (grants PP9902, P00-04, P01-02, and P03-01)."--Cover.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Also available in PDF from the NBER world wide web site (www.nber.org).
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