James D. Adams’s research while affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and other places

... A rich history of innovation fosters the development of high-quality, technologically advanced products, increasing firms' competitiveness and profitability. Second, innovation enhances expected profitability and productivity by reducing investment costs and enabling firms to realize potential economies of scale in production (Griffith, Harrison, & Van Reenen, 2006;Adams & Jaffe, 1996). Third, innovation allows firms to temporarily establish a monopoly position in the market, leading to higher profits (Schumpeter, 2013). ...

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Patent Intensity and Firm Performance: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms

... The results allow us to reflect on the topics PSJ research discusses and compare them to those discussed by policymakers and think tanks. In theory, policy scholarship should follow policymaking (though, typically, there is a significant lag between journal publication and issue emergence, see Adams & Roger Clemmons, 2013;Powell, 2016). Policy scholars reading this know attention to issues is finite, as is journal space, so the issues appearing in PSJ can safely be thought of as markers of important topics. ...

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The dynamics of issue attention in policy process scholarship

... Admas et al. (2005) conducted research based on literature data published by the top 110 universities in the United States. Their results showed that the international collaboration of research institutions has a positive impact on the frequency of paper citations, but there is a negative correlation with scientific productivity [14]. In related research of the industry, it has also been found that too much scientific research collaboration hinders an organization's absorptive capacity and independent innovation ability and damages the accumulation and creation of internal knowledge [15]. ...

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Impact of Transnational Research Collaboration on Universities’ Innovation Performance: Panel Data Research of 64 Chinese Universities from 2009 to 2019

... There are many labour market theories in macroeconomics dealing with matching (Fedorets, Lottmann, & Stops, 2019) or human capital sorting (Ahlin, Andersson, & Thulin, 2018), which aim at improving employment rates and quality of employment. However, individuals' free will always plays a role in employment issues, such as a personal preference in the choice of a geographical location to work and live (Sumell, Stephan, & Adams, 2009), suggesting the importance of a microeconomic approach through the agency theory (Lam, 2010;Lam & de Campos, 2015). The structuration theory is thus chosen as a background for this dissertation, as it reconciles both approaches, enabling us to consider both personal preferences and actions, and environmental structures such as formal and informal institutions in the analysis (Giddens, 1991). ...

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Doctoral education in the entrepreneurial university : enhanced employability?

... engineering vs. science) (Fritsch and Krabel 2012;Gu, Levin, and Luo 2018). Also, geographical areas with a concentration of innovative companies find more employment of Ph.D. graduates in the private sector (Stephan et al. 2004). Finally, the macroeconomic environment influences students' employment decision (Boulos 2016). ...

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Industry-funding for Ph.D. students: benefits and challenges

... International mobility ("nomadism") has always been a feature of scientific fields, although the EU would prefer that such mobility occurs with greater frequency within the Union's ERA to help stimulate reforms and share knowledge among member states. The factors responsible for present levels of mobility in single countries have been investigated in numerous studies during the past two decades and we have learned much recently (Crespi, Geuna and Nesta, 2005;Constant and DÁgosto, 2008;Zubieta, 2008;Kahn and Ginther, 2008;de Grip, Fouarge, and Sauermann, 2009;Kim, Lee and Marschke, 2006;Adams and Clemmons, 2008), but until now there has been no comprehensive study of academics from representative disciplines that now conduct the majority of research in Europe's top universities. This paper intends to help fill that gap. ...

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Hirschman Mobility, Governance and Loyalty in Europe’s Top Research Universities

... For example, up until the 1930 s, only four American scholars were Nobel Prize winners. However, 8,000 scientists, including 12 Nobel Prize winners, migrated to the U.S. between 1933 and 1944, contributing to the hegemonic status of the U.S. (Adams 2010). Over the span of seven decades of U.S. scholarship hegemony, countless international students have migrated to the U.S. The recruitment and number of international students have been increasing, as the U.S. makes efforts to show linguistic and cultural dominance, illustrating scholastic hegemony and the influence of cultural capital in higher education (Banks and Bhandari 2012). ...

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Entering into global academia: U.S. academic hegemony and former Korean elite athletes' faculty appointment in higher education

... RP is an effect with various and complex determinants (Ramesh Babu and Singh, 1998). Academics' motivation to conduct research and publish results is influenced by a complex array of factors, including their demographics, such as age, sex, marital status, qualifications and the composition of academic staff in their department (Aksnes, 2012;Adams and Clemmons, 2009;Ebadi and Schiffauerova, 2016;Oshagbemi, 2000). There are also personal and professional factors, such as motivation and self-efficacy, time allocated for different duties, pay scales, institutional position and promotion opportunities (Callaghan, 2015;Horodnic and Zait, 2015;Tien and Blackburn, 1996). ...

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Are female academics more research resilient? Evidence from South India’s engineering institutions

... For example, research on this topic focuses variously on productivity and preferences (Balsmeier and Pellens, 2014), gender and family (Fox and Stephan, 2001), perceptions of incentives (Fitzenberger and Leuschner, 2012), the determinants of exit from academic research (Geuna and Shibayama 2015), informational problems leading into PhD study (Mangematin, 2000), trade-offs between salary and publication freedom (Sauermann and Roach, 2014), issues regarding mentors' capacities to provide information on a diversity of potential careers (Bozeman and Gaughan, 2011;Sauermann and Roach, 2012). Additional topics explored include the existence of suitable role models (Steele et al., 2013), the geographical location of suitable industry jobs (Sumell et al., 2009) and the market power of star scientists (Zucker and Darby, 2006;Zucker et al., 2002). This research provides a basis for a needed innovation in the area of research-on-research careers-the enhanced tracking of research careers in non-academic organizations. ...

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The state-of-the-art of research on science research careers

... However, research has consistently demonstrated that measuring university productivity is a complex task (Massy et al., 2013;Sullivan, 2012), particularly in terms of measuring teaching-Learning and community engagement. In contrast, evaluating university productivity through research output is the most prevalent approach and is favored by the majority of researchers (Adams & Griliches, 2000). This is because evaluating a university's performance using research output relies on data-driven techniques rather than subjective judgments (Hicks et al., 2015). ...

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Publication output of Bahir Dar university: A Scopus-based bibliometric overview