Department of Economics

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest:

• Science and Technology Policy
• Economics of Higher Education
• Program Evaluation

Recent Publications:

"The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent of GPRA", Research Evaluation, (forthcoming)

"Equity and the Technology Transfer Strategies of American Research Universities" (with Maryann Feldman, Janet Bercovitz and Richard Burton), Management Science 48: 105-121, 2002.

"Impacts of Research Universities on Technological Innovation in Industry: Evidence from Engineering Research Centers" (with Catherine Ailes and J. David Roessner), Research Policy 31: 457-474, 2002.

"Performance Measurement Redux," American Journal of Evaluation, 23: 435-452, Winter 2002.

"The Microeconomics of Manufacturing Modernization Programs" (with J.P. Nelson), Research Policy, 28(4): 807-818, 1999.

"The American University System as a Performer of Basic and Applied Research, and More," in L. Branscomb, F. Kodama, and R. Florida, eds., Industrializing Knowledge: University-Industry Linkages in Japan and the United States (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press), pp. 65-101, 1999.

"The Structure of and Prospects for Policy Research as Suggested by Journal Citation Analysis" (with D. MacRae, Jr.), Policy Studies Review, 15: 115-135, 1998.

"Federal and State Government Roles in Science and Technology," Economic Development Quarterly, 11:4, pp. 283-295, 1997.

"Manufacturing Technology Centers as Components of Regional Technology Infrastructures," Regional Science and Urban Economics, 27: 181-197, 1997.

"Issues and Perspectives on Evaluating Manufacturing Modernization Programs" (with A. Glasmeier and M. Mark), Research Policy, 25:2, pp. 309-319, March 1996.

"Technology Transfer from Universities," in J.C. Smart (ed.), Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research (New York: Agathon Press), pp. 1-42, 1996.

"The Dispersion of Academic Research in the 1980s" (with R. Geiger), Journal of Higher Education, 66:3, pp. 336-360, 1995.

Research in Progress:

• Performance Indicators for Basic Research
• Interdisciplinarity in Research Universities
• The Competitive Structure of Research Universities
• Earmarking of Federal Academic Research Funds

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