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The Human Capital Accumulation at Research Infrastructures: Reexamining Wage Returns to Training, Models, Interpretation, and Magnitude Open
We design a research strategy to measure wage returns of research training targeting early career researchers (ECRs) at research infrastructures (RIs). Grounded in established economic models of education and training, our strategy improve…
The Link Between Large Scientific Collaboration and Productivity. Rethinking How to Estimate the Monetary Value of Publications Open
This paper addresses how to assign a monetary value to scientific publications, particularly in the case of multi-author papers arising from large-scale research collaborations. Contemporary science increasingly relies on extensive and var…
Awareness and Attitudes Towards Science. The Case of CERN Open
The chapter highlights the need for public understanding and support of scientific research, especially basic research with no immediate practical applications. It discusses the polarization in public attitudes towards science and emphasiz…
Projecting the socio-economic impact of a big science center: the world’s largest particle accelerator at CERN Open
Public investment in Big Science generates social benefits that can ultimately support economic growth. This paper implements a model for the social Cost – Benefit Analysis (CBA) of Big Science and relies on Monte Carlo methods to quantify…
Plan for research infrastructure socio-economic impact analysis Open
A publicly available overview and guideline for the analysis of the socio-economic impact analysis of the FCC-ee research infrastructure. The plan compiles impact pathways and associated key performance indicators, a description of the qua…
Human and social capital accumulation within research infrastructures: The case of CERN Open
The contribution to human and social capital accumulation is one of the most important socio‐economic benefits of public investment in Research Infrastructures. Sure enough, these large scientific enterprises are exceptional incubators of …
A contingent valuation experiment about future particle accelerators at CERN Open
Investment in basic science is mainly supported by government funding, but little is known about citizens’ willingness to pay for large-scale projects. A survey to a representative sample of French taxpayers, designed as a contingent valua…
Literature review on socio-economic impact assessment of Research Infrastructures Open
This report contains a critical literature review of the most common methodologies currently employed for the socio-economic impact assessment (IA) of research infrastructures (RIs). The review is intended to pave the way for the developme…
Impact of CERN procurement actions on industry : 28 illustrative success stories Open
CERN is a world-renowned centre for scientific research, celebrated, amongst other feats, for its recent discovery of the Higgs boson. Behind this and other discoveries, lies a vast accelerator complex, which hosts the largest machine in t…
Assessing the Socioeconomic Impact of Research Infrastructures: A Systematic Review of Existing Approaches and the Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis Open
This paper offers a systematic review of the most common methodologies that have been employed for the socioeconomic impact assessment of RIs over the past years. While there is not a single methodological approach in its original formulat…
Should governments fund basic science? Evidence from a willingness-to-pay experiment in five universities Open
Tax-payers are usually the ultimate funders of large-scale research infrastructures (RIs), but the expected discoveries of such projects often do not have any known use-value. By interviewing 1, 022 undergraduates, we study the drivers of …
Scientific Research at CERN as a Public Good: A Survey to French Citizens. Open
CERN produces knowledge advances about the nature and the origins of the Universe, which can be considered a ‘public good’ . The provision of such public good is financed by the contributions of its Member States. Taxpayers are ultimately …
Big science, learning, and innovation: evidence from CERN procurement Open
We study the way in which public procurement by big research infrastructures enhances suppliers’ performance. Using survey data on 669 CERN’s suppliers, we built a unique data set to analyze, through an ordered logit model and Bayesian net…
Big Science, Learning and Innovation: Evidence from CERN Procurement Open
We study the way in which public procurement by big research infrastructures enhances suppliers’ performance. Using survey data on 669 CERN suppliers, we built a unique data set to analyse, through an ordered logit model and Bayesian netwo…
Evaluating business support measures: The Bayesian Network approach Open
Traditional methods to the evaluation of business support consider the firm as a ‘black box’ and the main interest is to see to what extent a policy has produced the intended effects. The causal mechanisms that explain how certain effects …
Should Governments Fund Basic Science? Evidence from a Willingness-to-pay Experiment in Five Universities Open
Tax-payers are usually the ultimate funders of large-scale research infrastructures (RIs), but the expected discoveries of such projects often do not have any known use-value. By interviewing 1,022 undergraduates, we study the drivers of p…
Willingness-to-pay for science as a public good: a contingent valuation experiment Open
Every year a significant amount of money is invested by governments on large-scale research infrastructures such as particle accelerators, telescopes, robotic space probes, biological data banks, oceanographic vessels, etc. The majority of…
Experiential learning in high energy physics: a survey of students at the LHC Open
More than 36 000 students and post-docs will be involved until 2025 in research at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) mainly through international collaborations. To what extent they value the skills acquired? Do students expect that their le…
Human capital and urban growth in Italy, 1981-2001 Open
This paper analyses the contribution of human capital, measured using the share of residents holding a college degree, to urban growth, gauged by the growth in employment, between 1981 and 2001. According to our estimates, starting with a …
A "LHC Premium" for Early Career Researchers? Perceptions from within Open
More than 36,000 students and post-docs will be involved in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) until 2025. Do they expect that their learning experience will have an impact on their professional future? By drawing from earlier …
Willingness to pay for basic research: a contingent valuation experiment\n on the large hadron collider Open
An increasing number of countries and institutions are investing in\nlarge-scale research infrastructures (RIs) and in basic research. Scientific\ndiscoveries, which are expected thanks to RIs, may have a non-use value, in\nanalogy with en…
Willingness to pay for basic research: a contingent valuation experiment on the large hadron collider Open
An increasing number of countries and institutions are investing in large-scale research infrastructures (RIs) and in basic research. Scientific discoveries, which are expected thanks to RIs, may have a non-use value, in analogy with envir…