What are the implications for innovation and scientific discovery of the consistently falling levels of federal research funding and corresponding shift to industry funding at many research universities? Alex Xi He, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of...
The University of Michigan has publicly released data on the industries in which their graduates work and the regions in which they live after leaving the university. The data were released through an agreement between U-M and the Institute for Research on Innovation...
Three IRIS member universities have recently featured IRIS data to highlight the economic impact of their research expenditures: Northwestern University, in a piece titled “Northwestern research provides economic boost of nearly $800 million,” used its...
The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) invites applications for two Postdoctoral Research Fellows. These one-year fellowships are funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as part of a grant to develop and support the research community using the...
A new round of Vendor Profile Reports are on their way to IRIS members, showing data such as the number of minority- or woman-owned businesses with research contracts, details on industries receiving research contracts down to the 4-digit NAICS code, county-level...
