Publications by Annamaria Conti

R&D Team Diversity and Performance in Hypercompetitive Environment

Research summary: This article examines the effects of an R&D team's composition on its performance outcomes in hypercompetition. The fundamental feature of firms in hypercompetitive settings is that they are constantly challenged to improve their competit ...

2017

The productivity of science & engineering PhD students hired from supervisors’ networks

Annamaria Conti, Stefano Horst Baruffaldi, Fabiana Visentin

We compare the scientific productivity of PhD students who are hired from a fine-grained set of mutually exclusive affiliation types: a PhD supervisor's affiliation, an external affiliation from which the supervisor derives her coauthors, and an external a ...

Elsevier2016

Science and Engineering Ph.D. Students’ Career Outcomes, by Gender

Annamaria Conti, Fabiana Visentin

We examine differences in the careers of men and women Ph.D.s from two major European universities. Having performed regression analysis, we find that women are more likely than men to be employed in public administration when the alternatives are either a ...

Public Library of Science2015

A revealed preference analysis of PhD students’ choices over employment outcomes

Annamaria Conti, Fabiana Visentin

We develop a revealed preference approach to elicit science and engineering PhDs’ preferences over employment outcomes, exploiting cohort size variations. Depending on whether pecuniary and non-pecuniary rewards are sticky or not, increments in the PhDs’ c ...

Elsevier2015

Knowledge Specialization in Ph.D. Student Groups

Annamaria Conti, Fabiana Visentin

Researchers have argued that specialization within groups yields productivity gains. We evaluate this statement with a focus on groups of Ph.D. students. Using an established technique in computer science called Latent Dirichlet Allocation, we construct a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Is the US outperforming Europe in university technology licensing? A new perspective on the European Paradox

Annamaria Conti, Patrick Gaulé

Europe is perceived to be lagging behind the US in converting its academic results into economic outcomes. Using new survey data on European and US technology transfer offices (TTOs), we find that differences in academic research, TTO staff and experience ...

2011

Three essays on university-industry technology transfer and the economics of science

Annamaria Conti

In the first chapter of this thesis, coauthored with Patrick Gaulé, we reexamine the widely held belief, known as the "European Paradox", that while European academic institutions are good at producing academic research outputs, they lag behind US academic ...

EPFL2009