Sabrina T Howell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5852914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabrina T Howell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabrina T |
| FAMILY NAME | Howell |
| SIGNATURE | HOWELL S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University Stern School of Business and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5277-0336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Opening Up Military Innovation
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D
This paper offers the first study of how changes in corporate R&D investment affect labor mobility. We show that increases in R&D spur employee departures to join start-ups’ founding teams. This appears to reflect employees taking the ideas, skills, or technologies created through the R&D process but not especially valuable to the R&D-investing firm to start-ups. The employee-founded start-ups tend to be outside the R&D-investing employer’s indus…
Financing Innovation
Governments regularly subsidize new ventures to spur innovation. This paper conducts the first large-sample, quasi-experimental evaluation of R&D subsidies. I use data on ranked applicants to the US Department of Energy's SBIR grant program. An early-stage award approximately doubles the probability that a firm receives subsequent venture capital and has large, positive impacts on patenting and revenue. These effects are stronger for more financi…
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Financing Innovation
Governments regularly subsidize new ventures to spur innovation. This paper conducts the first large-sample, quasi-experimental evaluation of R&D subsidies. I use data on ranked applicants to the US Department of Energy's SBIR grant program. An early-stage award approximately doubles the probability that a firm receives subsequent venture capital and has large, positive impacts on patenting and revenue. These effects are stronger for more financi…
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D
This paper offers the first study of how changes in corporate R&D investment affect labor mobility. We show that increases in R&D spur employee departures to join start-ups’ founding teams. This appears to reflect employees taking the ideas, skills, or technologies created through the R&D process but not especially valuable to the R&D-investing firm to start-ups. The employee-founded start-ups tend to be outside the R&D-investing employer’s indus…
Opening Up Military Innovation
Economics (3 works) · Innovation Policy and RD (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (2 works) · Management (2 works) · Venture capital (2 works) · Certification (1 work) · Defense industry (1 work) · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies (1 work) · Econometrics (1 work)