University R&D Funding Strategies in a Changing Federal Funding Environment

被引:15
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作者
Blume-Kohout, Margaret E. [1 ,2 ]
Kumar, Krishna B. [3 ]
Sood, Neeraj [4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Univ New Mexico, Robert Wood Johnson Fdn Ctr Hlth Policy, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[2] Univ New Mexico, Dept Econ, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[3] RAND, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA
[4] Univ So Calif, Sch Pharm, Schaeffer Ctr Hlth Policy & Econ, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
[5] Univ So Calif, Sch Pharm, Dept Pharmaceut Econ & Policy, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
university; R&D funding; academic research; National Institutes of Health; signaling; RESOURCE-ALLOCATION; IMPACT;
D O I
10.1093/scipol/scu054
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
This paper evaluates how changes in US National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding levels affected US universities' total biomedical R&D efforts, over a period of dramatic change in the federal funding environment. Instrumental variables estimation reveals that during the NIH budget doubling period (1998-2003), each federal dollar that US universities received spurred an additional $ 0.26 in research support from non-federal sources, with stronger complementarity found among historically less-research-intensive institutions. However, in the more competitive post-doubling environment (2006 onwards), the more research-intensive PhD-granting universities substituted funding from non-federal sources to maintain stable levels of R&D expenditures. In contrast, at non-PhD-granting and historically less-research-intensive institutions, total R&D funding and expenditures declined overall with reduced availability of federal funds. However, the effect of successful federal applications on subsequent non-federal investment remained significant and positive for this latter group, suggesting federal R&D funding may play an important signaling role.
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页码:355 / 368
页数:14
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