Pierre Azoulay

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Associate Professor of Strategy

100 Main Street

E62-416

Cambridge, MA 02142

United States

http://scripts.mit.edu/~pazoulay/

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (34)

1.

Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship

NBER Working Paper No. w24489
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania - Management Department and US Census Bureau — Economy-Wide Statistics Division
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Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 09-136
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 28 May 2009
Pierre Azoulay, Christopher Liu, Toby Stuart and Toby Stuart
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Oregon - Department of Management and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of BusinessHarvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 403 (154,204)
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3.

Superstar Extinction

NBER Working Paper No. w14577
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2022
Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin and Jialan Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, School of Global Policy and Strategy and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance
Downloads 177 (355,019)
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States

NBER Working Paper No. w27778
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 27 May 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania - Management Department and US Census Bureau — Economy-Wide Statistics Division
Downloads 161 (385,388)
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Matthew: Effect or Fable?

NBER Working Paper No. w18625
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 15 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 24 May 2023
Pierre Azoulay, Toby Stuart, Toby Stuart and Yanbo Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of BusinessHarvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit and University of Hong Kong
Downloads 146 (418,093)
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Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences

NBER Working Paper No. w15466
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2023
Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin and Gustavo Manso
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, School of Global Policy and Strategy and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
Downloads 143 (425,088)
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Status Spillovers

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 May 2015
Brigham Young University - Marriott School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of BusinessHarvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 134 (447,536)

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status, spillovers, prizes, science

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Network Effects and Diffusion in Pharmaceutical Markets: Antiulcer Drugs

NBER Working Paper No. w7024
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Jul 1999 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2022
Ernst R. Berndt, Robert S. Pindyck and Pierre Azoulay
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 127 (466,937)
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Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?

NBER Working Paper No. w21788
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 14 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of California, Merced and School of Global Policy and Strategy
Downloads 117 (500,212)
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Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10980
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 16 Dec 2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of California, Merced and School of Global Policy and Strategy
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cumulative knowledge production, economics of science, invisible college, scientific fields, superstars

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Consumption Externalities and Diffusion in Pharmaceutical Markets: Antiulcer Drugs

NBER Working Paper No. w7772
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 17 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2022
Ernst R. Berndt, Robert S. Pindyck and Pierre Azoulay
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 107 (531,515)

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Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry

CESifo Working Paper No. 10217
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 25 Jan 2023
Shumin Qiu, Claudia Steinwender and Pierre Azoulay
East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 89 (607,868)
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research and development, economics of science, innovation, international spillovers

Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry

NBER Working Paper No. w30772
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 19 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2023
Shumin Qiu, Claudia Steinwender and Pierre Azoulay
East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 11 (1,263,701)

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Scientific Grant Funding

NBER Working Paper No. w26889
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2023
Pierre Azoulay and Danielle Li
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 100 (557,935)
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The Impact of Academic Patenting on the Rate, Quality, and Direction of (Public) Research Output

NBER Working Paper No. w11917
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2022
Pierre Azoulay, Waverly W. Ding, Toby Stuart and Toby Stuart
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Maryland - R.H. Smith School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of BusinessHarvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 99 (561,783)
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Public R&D Investments and Private-Sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

NBER Working Paper No. w20889
Number of pages: 113 Posted: 27 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, School of Global Policy and Strategy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health
Downloads 91 (592,756)
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Funding Breakthrough Research: Promises and Challenges of the “Arpa Model”

NBER Working Paper No. w24674
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Prime Coalition and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 82 (631,007)
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The Determinants of Faculty Patenting Behavior: Demographics or Opportunities?

NBER Working Paper No. w11348
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2022
Pierre Azoulay, Waverly W. Ding, Toby Stuart and Toby Stuart
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Maryland - R.H. Smith School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of BusinessHarvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 80 (639,933)
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17.

Agents of Embeddedness

NBER Working Paper No. w10142
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 10 Dec 2003 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2022
Pierre Azoulay
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 75 (663,292)

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Medical Research and Health Care Finance: Evidence from Academic Medical Centers

NBER Working Paper No. w27943
Number of pages: 115 Posted: 14 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Pierre Azoulay, Misty Heggeness and Jennifer L. Kao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Government of the United States of America - Bureau of the Census and UCLA Anderson
Downloads 72 (678,126)
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NIH Peer Review: Challenges and Avenues for Reform

NBER Working Paper No. w18116
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2022
Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin and Gustavo Manso
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, School of Global Policy and Strategy and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
Downloads 71 (683,239)
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Acquiring Knowledge within and Across Firm Boundaries: Evidence from Clinical Development

NBER Working Paper No. w10083
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2022
Pierre Azoulay
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 71 (683,239)
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Retractions

NBER Working Paper No. w18499
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 27 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center
Downloads 70 (688,362)
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The Rise of For-Profit Experimental Medicine

NBER Working Paper No. w26892
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 30 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2023
Pierre Azoulay and Ariel Fishman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Yeshiva University
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The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space: Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine

NBER Working Paper No. w16683
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 18 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2023
Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin and Bhaven N. Sampat
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, School of Global Policy and Strategy and Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health
Downloads 62 (732,647)
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Inside Job or Deep Impact? Using Extramural Citations to Assess Economic Scholarship

NBER Working Paper No. w23698
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 21 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Economics, Finance, Accounting (EFA) and Purdue University - Krannert School of Management
Downloads 51 (803,881)
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Long-Term Effects from Early Exposure to Research: Evidence from the NIH "Yellow Berets''

NBER Working Paper No. w26069
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 25 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2023
Pierre Azoulay, Wesley Greenblatt and Misty Heggeness
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Government of the United States of America - Bureau of the Census
Downloads 48 (825,882)
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The Mobility of Elite Life Scientists: Professional and Personal Determinants

NBER Working Paper No. w21995
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
Pierre Azoulay, Ina Ganguli and Joshua Graff Zivin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - College of Social and Behavioral Sciences - Department of Economics and School of Global Policy and Strategy
Downloads 48 (825,882)
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Publicationharvester: An Open-Source Software Tool for Science Policy Research

NBER Working Paper No. w12039
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 08 May 2006 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2022
Pierre Azoulay, Andrew Stellman and Joshua Graff Zivin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Stellman & Greene Consulting LLC and Columbia University - Department of Health Policy and Management
Downloads 46 (841,414)
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The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions

NBER Working Paper No. w21146
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 11 May 2015 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2023
Pierre Azoulay, Alessandro Bonatti and Joshua Krieger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 41 (882,523)
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Death of the Salesman, But Not the Sales Force: How Interested Promotion Skews Scientific Valuation

NBER Working Paper No. w24591
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 14 May 2018 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2023
Pierre Azoulay, J. Michael Wahlen and Ezra W. Zuckerman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 40 (891,335)
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Self-Citation, Cumulative Advantage, and Gender Inequality in Science

NBER Working Paper No. w26893
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022
Pierre Azoulay and Freda Lynn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Iowa - Department of Sociology
Downloads 34 (947,501)
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Paper Tiger? Chinese Science and Home Bias in Citations

NBER Working Paper No. w32468
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 May 2024
Shumin Qiu, Claudia Steinwender and Pierre Azoulay
East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Paper Tiger? Chinese Science and Home Bias in Citations

CESifo Working Paper No. 11664
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Feb 2025
Shumin Qiu, Claudia Steinwender and Pierre Azoulay
East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 15 (1,208,920)

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home bias, China, citations, economics of science, basic research, international spillovers

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Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative Ai

NBER Working Paper No. w32474
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 May 2024 Last Revised: 22 May 2024
Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Krieger and Abhishek Nagaraj
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and University of California, Berkeley
Downloads 13 (1,194,773)
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Does Peer Review Penalize Scientific Risk Taking? Evidence from NIH Grant Renewals

NBER Working Paper No. w33495
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 18 Feb 2025
Pierre Azoulay and Wesley Greenblatt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Harvard University - Boston Children’s Hospital
Downloads 10 (1,230,461)
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Hiv/Aids and Strategy

Posted: 13 Dec 2006
Consultant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Aspen Institute

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