| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 122 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Academic entrepreneurship, scientists, and scientific careers, 2523-7012 |
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Academic entrepreneurship, scientists, and scientific careers. 2523-7012
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| Contents |
Introduction. R&D project failure and principal investigators -- Part I. Contextual setting. Publicly funded collaborative R&D: the case of the US Department of Energy ; Legislative history of the SBIR program ; A theoretical model of R&D project success or failure ; Department of Energy and SBIR data ; Collaborative R&D firm and project characteristics: empirical insights ; Principal investigators experience in collaborative R&D: empirical findings -- Part II. Reflections and future perspectives. PIs and R&D project failure: reflections and future research avenues |
| Summary |
Failure in R&D efforts are fairly common and with many factors that contribute to the outcome. This book focuses on the role of principal investigators (PIs) in R&D project failures and provides a theoretical model explaining how firm characteristics, including those of the PIs, impact the probability of failure. The theoretical model also serves as a structural form model to motivate the empirical analysis which assesses the probability of failure in small technology-based firms. The author uses data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to build a new and informative tool to assess R&D projects and demonstrate the strengths of the theoretical model. The association between PIs and R&D failure not only provides insights that can have a downstream impact to economic growth, but it can also provide policymakers with valuable information to aid decisions in allocating funds for R&D |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 23, 2023) |
| Subject |
Research and development projects.
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Research, Industrial.
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Business failures.
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Business failures
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Research and development projects
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Research, Industrial
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031436086 |
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3031436083 |
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