The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space: Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine

Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Bhaven N. Sampat

NBER Working Paper No. 16683
Issued in January 2011

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the National Science Foundation through its SciSIP Program (Award SBE-0738142). We thank the conference audience, our discussant Adam Jaffe, as well as Scott Stern and Manuel Trajtenberg for useful comments and suggestions. The usual disclaimer applies. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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