@article{Kim:19147, recid = {19147}, author = {Kim, Kwansoo and Barham, Bradford L. and Chavas, Jean-Paul and Foltz, Jeremy D.}, title = {Research and Development at U.S. Research Universities: An Analysis of Scope Economies}, address = {2005}, number = {378-2016-21294}, series = {Selected Paper 137016}, pages = {37}, year = {2005}, abstract = {This paper investigates the presence and sources of economies of scope in R&D production at U.S. research universities. The analysis evaluates the tradeoffs or synergies arising between traditional university research outputs (articles and doctorates) and a more recent and burgeoning output: academic patents. Using a shortage function, we propose a decomposition of economies of scope (decomposition which includes complementarity effects and scale effects). R&D input and output data from 92 public and private research universities are used to obtain non-parametric estimates of scope economies. The results show significant variations in economies of scope and sources by size and type of university.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/19147}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.19147}, }