Impact of Public Funding on the Development of Nanotechnology A Comparison of Quebec, Canada and the US Leila Tahmooresnejad – Polytechnique Montréal Catherine Beaudry – Polytechnique Montréal Andrea Schiffauerova – Concordia University 1st International Conference of Ne3LS Network November 2012
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Impact of Public Funding on the
Development of Nanotechnology
A Comparison of Quebec,
Canada and the US
Leila Tahmooresnejad – Polytechnique Montréal
Catherine Beaudry – Polytechnique Montréal
Andrea Schiffauerova – Concordia University
1st International Conference of Ne3LS Network
November 2012
Outline of the presentation
Motivation
Theoretical Framework
Data and Methodology
Network
Hypotheses
Econometric models
Regression results
Conclusion
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Motivation
Public funding for research facilitates the production of knowledge and is a key element for innovation in high technologies
Facilitate the diffusion of knowledge
Develop new technologies
Universities and their affiliated centers play a vital role in National innovation systems (Hall et al.,
2003; Link & Scott, 2004; Zucker, Darby & Armstrong, 2002)
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Nanotechnology (I/II)
Emergence of nanotechnology over recent years
was the starting point for many changes in a vast
number of industries.
High competitive advantage for companies (Canton, 1999)
Creation of new companies (Porter et al., 2007)
Nano-enabled products with optimal features (Armstrong,
2008; Vokhidov and Dobrovol’skii, 2010)
Potential markets (Knol, 2004; Roco, 2007; Malanowski and
Zweck, 2007)
Nano-related jobs (Freeman and Shukla, 2008)
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Nanotechnology (II/II)
Nanotechnology requires considerable investment
Most of countries are following the US in initiating nanotechnology programs and increasing the allocated funds (Sargent, 2008)
Canada lags behind in the race of nanotechnology
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Theoretical Framework (I/II)
Positive correlation between federal research
funding and scientific outputs (Adams and Griliches,
1998; Payne and Siow, 2003; Blume-Kogut et al. 2009).
More government research funding results
more papers (Payne and Siow , 2003)
More government research funding results
more patents with a lower rate (Payne and Siow,
2003)
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Theoretical Framework (II/II)
High quality research should obtain more
citations (Raan et al., 2003)
Citations are 'proxy' (Cronin, 2005)
Papers and Patents of researchers, who
received funding, may receive more citations
e.g. Patents of researchers, who received NSF
funding, received more citations compared with
those of other researchers in Nanoscale Science
and Engineering (Huang et al., 2005).
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Objectives
Measure the impact of grants and contracts on the outputs of academic researchers
Papers ( quantity and quality)
Patents ( quantity and quality)
Measure the impact of scientific and technological networks ( co-publication and co-invention networks)
Compare these impacts in Quebec, Canada and the US
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Data and Methodology
Data (I/II)
Scopus
Extraction of nanotechnology scientific papers by using specific keywords in the title, abstract and keywords
Selection the articles where there is at least one Canadian author
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Extraction of nanotechnology scientific patents by using specific keywords in the title, abstract and keywords
Selection the patents where there is at least one Canadian inventor
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Data (II/II) Systèmes d’information de la recherche universitaire (SIRU) for
Quebec Amounts of grants and contracts received by researchers in Quebec
Database of three granting councils (CIHR(Canadian Institute for
Health Research), NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council), SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada)) Amount of grants received by Canadian researchers
Nanobank Papers of the researchers in the US
Patents of the researchers in the US
Amount of grants( NIH (National Institutes of Health) and NSF(National
Science Foundation) received by researchers in the US
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Methodology
Matching databases
Creating a unique identifier for each individual
researcher
Data cleaning
Creating co-publication and co-invention
networks
Calculating network characteristics and the
position of researchers
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Network (I/III) A, B and C have published an
article or are the inventors of a patent
A, B and E have published an article or are the inventors of a patent
C and D have published an article or are the inventors of a patent
Degree of a node Number of links that are directly
connected
A, B and C have 3 connections
E has 2 connections
D has 1 connection
C
A B
D
E
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Network (II/III)
Centrality degree
indicates the number of actors that are connected to a
specific actor
Geodesic distance
Distance (shortest path) between two nodes
Betweenness centrality of a node
is defined as the proportion of all geodesic distances
between two nodes that includes this node.
It makes the node more powerful since it can control the
knowledge flow between the other pair of actors
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Network (III/III)
Clustering coefficient
if two nodes are connected to the specific third
node, they may also be connected to each other.
It is computed as the fraction of pairs of neighbors
of an actor that are directly connected each other.
C
A B
D
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Hypotheses (I/II)
Hypothesis 1a: Nanotechnology scientists/ academic inventors who receive more public funding contribute to more publications/patents compared with scientists/ academic inventors who receive less or no public funding.
Hypothesis 1b: Nanotechnology scientists/ academic inventors who receive more public funding contribute to higher quality publications/patents compared with scientists/ academic inventors who receive less or no public funding.
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Hypotheses (II/II)
Hypothesis 2a: A better network position of
scientists/ academic inventors has a positive effect
on the number of papers/patents to which a
scientist/ academic inventor contributes.
Hypothesis 2b: A better network position of
scientists/ academic inventors has a positive effect
on the quality of papers/patents to which a
scientist/ academic inventor contributes.
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The amount of average grants / contracts that are received in 3 years preceding the patent application / paper publication with one year lag
The betweenness centrality of academic –inventors /scientists in the co –invention/ co –publication network over 3 years preceding the patent application/ paper publication with 2 years lag
The cliquishness centrality of academic –inventors / scientists in the co –invention / co –publication network over 3 years preceding the patent application /paper publication with 2 years lag
TotSubvMoy3it-l TotContMoy3it-l
BtwCentXit-2
CliqnessXit-2
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Endogeneity Problem
The explanatory variables are linked together since one can explain the other. The number of papers/patents is explained by the total
grants/contracts received
Two–Stage Residual Inclusion (2RSI) and Two –Stage –Least –Squares (2SLS)
Instrumental variables Age :the number of years since the beginning of the career
of researcher in nanotechnology
Chair :value 0 if a researcher has no chair, 1 if he has an industrial chair, 2 for being a chair from two councils of the Canadian federal granting, 3 for a scientist who is a Canada Research chair
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