Synergies or Trade‐Offs in University Life Sciences Research
2007
Foltz, Jeremy D. | Barham, Bradford L. | Kim, Kwansoo
Major legislative, legal, and technological changes paved the way for a period of remarkable growth in the patenting of life science research by U.S. universities in the 1980s and 1990s. Using a multiple‐output cost framework and two decades of panel data on ninety‐six universities, this article examines whether economies of scope and/or scale are present in university production of three major life science research outputs: journal articles, patents, and doctorates. The results show strong evidence of economies of scale in life science research production with mixed evidence of economies of scope between articles and patents.
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