Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Big science and small incentives: how crowdfunding, incubators and prizes influence the rate and direction of university innovation
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
$301,615
What's the big idea; exploring the determinants of breakthrough innovation
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$87,910
Knowledge spillovers and social ties in science and high technology
SSHRC · 2004 · Principal investigator
$113,000

All 5 grants and awards

No publications available.

Big science and small incentives: how crowdfunding, incubators and prizes influence the rate and direction of university innovation

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Agrawal, Ajay K.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; universities; innovation; commercialization; licensing; venture financing; incubators; accelerators; crowdfunding; patents; digital economy

$301,615

What's the big idea; exploring the determinants of breakthrough innovation

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Agrawal, Ajay K.

Keywords: innovation; competitiveness; breakthrough ideas; technology strategy; science policy; knowledge flows; productivity; university inventions; commercialization; patents; publications; citations; creativity; economic growth

$87,910

Knowledge spillovers and social ties in science and high technology

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Agrawal, Ajay K.

Keywords: knowledge spillovers; technology transfer; labour mobility; tacit knowledge; productivity; social networks; science policy; university inventions; patents; publications; citations; bibliometrics; economics of innovation; technology strategy

$113,000

You can't take it with you: or can you? examining the influence of international labour mobility on the flow of scientific ideas

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004INE Skills Research Initiative

Principal investigators: Agrawal, Ajay K.

Keywords: knowledge flows; spillovers; labour mobility; inventors; scientists; engineers; patents; market for ideas; social relationships; trust; tacit knowledge; economic growth

$24,600

Public sector science, private sector competition: exploring the role of Canadian university research in high technology industries

Principal investigatorSSHRC2001INE Research Grants

Principal investigators: Agrawal, Ajay

Keywords: innovation; R&D; university science; knowledge transfer; technology transfer; patents; publications; market for ideas; venture capital; productivity; intellectual property; competition; technology policy; Canada; quantum computing; economic clusters

$72,800

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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