Do funding agencies select and enable novel research: evidence from ERC
sponsorship: We are grateful to ERC, particularly unit A.1 at the ERC Executive Agency, supporting the Scientific Council, for providing us access to the ERC data. Veugelers acknowledges the financial support from KULeuven-Grant 3H200208. Veugelers served as a Scientific Council member of the ERC from 2013 till 2018. The views expressed in the paper are the authors' and they do not necessarily reflect the views or official positions of the ERC Scientific Council. Stephan acknowledges the financial support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation|3H200208, ERC Executive Agency, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation)
Authors
- Paula E. Stephan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9562-4008)
- Reinhilde Veugelers
- Jian Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8064-2497)
Institutions
- Leiden University (NL)
- Center for Economic and Policy Research (US)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
- Peterson Institute for International Economics (US)
- Georgia State University (US)
- Bruegel (BE)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- KU Leuven (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Economics of Innovation and New Technology
- Published
- 2025-04-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2025.2486344
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Innovation Policy and R&D
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.39
Funders
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- KU Leuven