A Taste for Science? PhD Scientists’ Academic Orientation and Self-Selection into Research Careers in Industry

By Michael Roach, Henry Sauermann. 2010

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Statistics and Probability, Strategy and Management

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Not All Scientists pay to be Scientists (2014, unknown): “17 Using a small sample of scientists, Roach and Sauermann (2010) provide earlier vidence of sorting based on publishing preferences by showing a positive correlaion between the importance of publishing and the perceived attractiveness of an cademic career.”
Flying the nest: how the home department shapes researchers’ career paths (2017, unknown): “…that they are not training for one career path exclusively, and indeed a significant proportion of those in science and engineering express a preference for a career in industry or government (Roach and Sauermann 2010; Gemme and Gingras 2012) or a career outside research (Fuhrmann et al. 2011).”
Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students (2017, background): “results is a prerequisite for an academic career (Roach and Sauermann, 2010), making dissertation work a major contributor to academic output (Hagen, 2013; Miller, 2013).”
What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation (2010, unknown): “In particular, it is conceivable that industrial scientists and engineers with a " taste for science " (Roach and Sauermann 2010, Stern 2004) and strong desire to obtain recognition from peers choose to engage more actively with the broader scientific community, which in turn may increase their…”
Open Access to Data: An Ideal Professed but Not Practised (2014, background): “…of scientists (in industrial &D departments) to pay to engage in open science suggests that here is a significant heterogeneity with respect to scientists’ attiudes towards openness and their “taste for science” (Agarwal nd Ohyama, 2013; Roach and Sauermann, 2010; Sauermann and oach, 2014).”
Research collaboration and R&D outsourcing: Different R&D personnel requirements in SMEs (2013, background): “High qualified employees can be associated with higher R&D investment levels (Roach and Sauermann, 2010) and education and training are found crucial to innovation (Lam, 2005).”