Industries of Ideas
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
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computer science at Stanford University. These graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, would later cite NSF funding support in the patent application leading to the 1998 founding of Google, Inc. in Menlo Park.
About this opportunity
Mapping the Economic Impacts of Research Investments in Emerging Technologies In the mid-1990s, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded two graduate students in computer science at Stanford University. These graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, would later cite NSF funding support in the patent application leading to the 1998 founding of Google, Inc. in Menlo Park. Federal research funding has enabled many others to pursue innovative scientific projects on university campuses, and later to join firms eager to benefit from their training and stores of potentially transformative ideas. How has this flow of scientific talent impacted the firms that have hired grant-funded researchers? What jobs have been created–or eliminated–as a result of the movement of grant-funded innovato...