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Toole, R C, 3791064
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/421862Surname: TOOLE. Given Name(s) or Initials: R C. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 3791064. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: SEA-3128.246786
Item: [2016.0049.54123] "Toole, R C, 3791064
Business R&D and the Interplay of R&D Subsidies and Market Uncertainty
No full textThe literature suggests that public research and development (R&D) subsidies may reduce market failures affecting private R&D investment caused by incomplete appropriability of knowledge and financial constraints due capital market imperfections. Drawing on the theory of investment under uncertainty, this paper argues that public R&D subsidies increase business R&D investment through an additional mechanism – mitigating the effects of market uncertainty on R&D investment in markets for new products. Using a sample of German manufacturing firms, we show that market uncertainty indeed reduces R&D investment, and that R&D subsidies mitigate the effect of uncertainty. Our findings suggest that public policies aimed at increasing business R&D investment can achieve this objective by reducing the degree of uncertainty in the demand for innovative products. --Real Options Theory,Uncertainty,R&D,Censored Regression
Patent protection, market uncertainty, and R&D investment
No full textThe real options investment theory shows that greater uncertainty about market revenues reduces current R&D investment by increasing the value of waiting. This paper presents empirical evidence that patent protection mitigates the effect market uncertainty on R&D investment. --Real Options Theory,Uncertainty,R&D,Intellectual Property Protection,Censored Regression
Does Public Scientific Research Complement Industry R&D Investment? The Case of NIH Supported Basic and Clinical Research and Pharmaceutical Industry R&D
No full textThis research investigates the hypothesis that publicly funded scientific research complements private R&D investment in the pharmaceutical industry. New microlevel data on public research investment by the U.S. National Institutes of Health allow measures of basic and clinical research in seven medical areas to be included in a distributed lag model explaining pharmaceutical R&D investment. Using a panel of therapeutic classes observed over eighteen years, the analysis finds strong evidence that public basic and clinical research are complementary to pharmaceutical R&D and, thereby, stimulate private industry investment. However, differences in the relevance and degree of scientific and market uncertainty between basic and clinical public research lead to differences in the magnitude and timing of the pharmaceutical investment response. The results indicate that a dollar increase in public basic research stimulates an additional 8.38 in pharmaceutical investment after eight years. The industry R&D response to public clinical research is smaller in magnitude and shorter in duration with a dollar increase in public clinical research stimulating an additional 2.35 in pharmaceutical investment over a three year period. --R&D,pharmaceuticals,NIH,distributed lag models
Lucky Toole, National Society of Pershing Rifles
No full textLucky Toole was a student at Jacksonville State College (now Jacksonville State University). In 1963-1964 he was a Cadet in the National Society of Pershing Rifles.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/28603/thumbnail.jp
John Kennedy Toole\u27s Papers: A Cautionary Tale of Scholarly Research.
No full textThis document is the script from a Winona State University Library Athenaeum presentation by H. Vernon Leighton. The lecture was presented on March 17, 2010. In the Summer of 2009, Leighton visited Tulane University and studied the papers of John Kennedy Toole, the author of A Confederacy of Dunces. At the time of this lecture, he was working on an academic paper on this topic. The papers, about which no scholar has published a description at that time, established that at least two claims made in the scholarly literature on Toole were incorrect. The 16 December 2025 version of this text will be the final and authoritative version.https://openriver.winona.edu/libraryfacultyworks/1010/thumbnail.jp
Ideas for Papers or Term Papers on John Kennedy Toole\u27s A Confederacy of Dunces, the Occasional Series, Final Version
No full textThis document lists thirty-three ideas that the reader might use for the basis of a literary study of the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, or its author, John Kennedy Toole. Some ideas, such as the first few, are minor and might warrant a five-page undergraduate paper. Others, such as the final one, might warrant a peer-review article or a graduate thesis. These ideas were originally posted between 2010 and 2025 on the John Kennedy Toole Research blog by H. Vernon Leighton.https://openriver.winona.edu/libraryfacultyworks/1006/thumbnail.jp
Industry-science connections in agriculture: Do public science collaborations and knowledge flows contribute to firm-level agricultural research productivity?
No full textPrior research shows long-run productivity growth in agriculture is associated with increases in the stock of public scientific knowledge and private patented inventions. However, private inventions may be a function of the stock of public knowledge. In this paper, we examine the possibility that public knowledge contributes to productivity through its relationship with private sector invention. Our analysis identifies connections between the stock of public knowledge and private firm R&D and examines whether the degree of 'connectedness' to public science is associated with greater firm-level research productivity in agriculture. Bibliographic information identifies the nature and degree to which firms use public agricultural science through citations and collaborations on scientific papers. Fixed effects models show that greater citations and collaborations with university researchers are associated with greater private agricultural research productivity. --Public science,research productivity,patents,citations,collaboration,R&D,bibliometrics
Patent Protection, Market Uncertainty, and R&D Investment
No full textReal options investment theory predicts current investment falls as uncertainty about market returns increases. In the case of R&D investment, which is usually considered an irreversible form of investment, this effect should be quite pronounced. This paper tests the real options prediction about the R&D investment-uncertainty relationship and further considers how patent protection influences this relationship. Patent protection, by limiting the threat of market rivalry, should mitigate firm-specific uncertainty and stimulate current R&D investment. Our empirical results support both the prediction of real options theory and the mitigating effect of patent protection. --Real Options Theory,Uncertainty,R&D,Intellectual Property Protection,Censored Regression
Privatization, Public R&D Policy, and Private R&D Investment in China's Agriculture
No full textPrivate R&D is a major source of innovation and productivity growth in agriculture worldwide. This paper examines trends and determinants of agricultural R&D in China. Results show that while the public sector monopolized agricultural research until recently, private agricultural R&D has grown rapidly since 2000, driven largely by agribusiness privatization. Public-sector R&D investments in basic research also encouraged private R&D research, but public investments in technology development crowded out private R&D investment. China’s private R&D investment would grow more rapidly if the government shifted public resources from technology development to basic research.Agriculture, China, Private R&D, Privatization, Public R&D, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
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