John Troy Scott

Selected Publications

• "Research Diversity and Invention," Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 62, Issue 2 (March 2023), pp. 179-197, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-022-09891-w.

• "Government Royalties on Sales of Pharmaceutical and Other Biomedical Products Developed with Substantial Public Funding: Illustrated with the Technology Transfer of the Drug-Eluting Coronary Stent", with Robert S. Danziger, Annals of Science and Technology Policy: Vol. 6: No. 1, online version, September 8, 2021, pp. 1-99; print/paper version, 2022, pp. 1-104.

• "Foreign Patents for the Technology Transfer from Laboratories of U.S. Federal Agencies," with David P. Leech, Journal of Technology Transfer, Vol. 47, Issue 4 (August 2022), pp. 937-978.

• "Technological Change in the Production of New Scientific Knowledge: A Second Look", with Albert N. Link, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 30, No. 4 (2021), pp. 371-381.

• "Scientific Publications at U.S. Federal Research Laboratories", with Albert N. Link, Scientometrics, Vol. 126, Issue 3 (March 2021), pp. 2227-2248.

• "Invention Disclosures and the Slowdown of Scientific Knowledge", with Albert N. Link, Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, Vol. 47, No. 6 (December 2020), pp. 829-833.

•  "Propensity to Patent and Firm Size for Small R&D-Intensive Firms", with Albert N. Link, Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 52, No. 4 (June 2018), pp. 561-587.

• "Commercial Complexity and Entrepreneurial Finance", with Troy J. Scott and Albert N. Link, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 26, No. 5 (2017), pp. 489-500.

• "The Entrepreneur's Idea and Outside Finance: Theory and Evidence about Entrepreneurial Roles," with Troy J. Scott, European Economic Review, Vol. 86 (July 2016), pp. 118-130. 

• "Standards and Innovation: US Public/Private Partnerships to Support Technology-based Economic Growth", with Troy J. Scott, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 24, No. 5 (July 2015), pp. 457-489.

• "Innovation Rivalry: Theory and Empirics", with Troy J. Scott, Economia e Politica Industriale-Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Vol. 41, No. 1 (March 2014), pp. 25-53.

• "Creativity for Invention Insights: Corporate Strategies and Opportunities for Public Entrepreneurship", Economia e Politica Industriale-Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Vol. 43, No. 4 (December 2016), pp. 409-448.

• "Public R&D Subsidies, Outside Private Support, and Employment Growth", with Albert N. Link, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 22, No. 6 (2013), pp. 537-550.

• Employment Growth from Public Support of Innovation in Small Firms, with Albert N. Link (W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2012).

• Public Goods, Public Gains: Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D, with Albert N. Link (Oxford University Press, 2011).

• "Government as Entrepreneur: Evaluating the Commercialization Success of SBIR Projects", with Albert N. Link, Research Policy, Vol. 39, No. 5 (June 2010), pp. 589-601. 

• "Competition in Research and Development: A Theory for Contradictory Predictions", Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 34, No. 2 (March 2009), pp. 153-171.

• "Private Investor Participation and Commercialization Rates for Government-sponsored Research and Development:  Would a Prediction Market Improve the Performance of the SBIR Programme?", with Albert N. Link, Economica, Vol. 76, No. 302 (April 2009), pp. 264-281.

• "The National Cooperative Research and Production Act," and "Multimarket Contact", in Issues in Competition Law and Policy, Vol. II, Wayne D. Collins, ed. (American Bar Association, 2008), pp. 1297-1317, 1553-1573.

• "Universities as Research Partners", with Bronwyn H. Hall and Albert N. Link, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 85, No. 2 (May 2003), pp. 485-491.

• Purposive Diversification and Economic Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1993 and 2005).

• Market Structure and Technological Change, with William L. Baldwin (Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987; Routledge, 2001; Taylor & Francis eBooks, 2013; paper, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014).

• "Beyond Firm and Industry Effects on Profitability in Imperfect Markets", with George Pascoe, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 68, No. 2 (May 1986), pp. 284-292.

• "Firm Versus Industry Variability in R&D Intensity", in R&D, Patents, and Productivity, ed. Zvi Griliches, chapter 10, pp. 233-245 (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1984).

• "Multimarket Contact and Economic Performance", Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 64, No. 3 (August 1982), pp. 368-375.

• "Scale Economies in Research and Development: the Schumpeterian Hypothesis", with Meir G. Kohn, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 30, No. 3 (March 1982), pp. 239-249.