Balancing basic and applied research

Balancing Incentives: The Tension Between Basic and Applied Research

When effort is multi-dimensional, firms will optimally “balance” the provision of incentives. Setting high-powered incentives along one dimension raises the returns to providing high-powered incentives along other dimensions which compete for the worker’s effort and/or attention (Holmstrom and Milgrom, 1991). We test for this effect in the context of for-profit pharmaceutical laboratories using...

Balancing basic and applied research outputs: a study of the trade-offs between publishing and patenting

Navigating without vision: basic and applied research.

We describe some of the results of our program of basic and applied research on navigating without vision. One basic research topic that we have studied extensively is path integration, a form of navigation in which perceived self-motion is integrated over time to obtain an estimate of current position and orientation. In experiments on pathway completion, one test of path integration ability, ...

Practical Solutions: Basic and Applied Research, Science, Engineering, and Design

the investigation of research articles in applied linguistics: convergence and divergence in iranian elt context

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