Lauren Lanahan

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Degree History:

PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013
BA, Reed College, 2006

Bio:

Lauren Lanahan's research primarily focuses on public economics as it relates to innovation and entrepreneurship. With a passion for evidence-based analysis, her work investigates the role of public institutions in understanding the evolving, multifaceted R&D enterprise. Her initial interest in this line of research began prior to her graduate academic career while working at the National Science Foundation. Working in NSF’s Social, Behavioral & Economics Directorate gave her a distinct insight into the process by which academia governs and evaluates itself. Through this experience, she became interested in research questions that extend beyond R&D within higher education toward questioning what institutions and reward structures are most efficient at producing new scientific knowledge and consequent economic growth.

Emerging Researchers on the Path to Innovation (co-PI, NSF SciSIP Grant)
The Role of Local Governments in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (co-PI, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Grant)

Research Interests

Entrepreneurship
Diversity
Technology Funding Policies

Journal Articles

Armanios, Daniel, Lauren Lanahan, and Dian Yu. "Varieties of Local Government Experimentation: U.S. State-Led Technology-Based Economic Development Policies, 2000-2015." Academy of Management Discoveries, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2018.0014.
Lanahan, Lauren, and Maryann P. Feldman. "Approximating Exogenous Variation in R&D: Evidence from the Kentucky and North Carolina SBIR State Match Programs." Review of Economics and Statistics 100, no. 4: 740-752. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00681.
October 2018
Graddy-Reed, Alexandra, Lauren Lanahan, and Nichole Ross. "The Effect of R&D Investment on Graduate Student Productivity: Evidence from the Life Sciences." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 37, no. 4: 809-834. https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22083.
September 2018
Lanahan, Lauren, and Daniel Armanios. "Does More Certification Benefit a Venture?" Organization Science 29, no. 5: 931-947. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2018.1211.
September 2018
Graddy-Reed, Alexandra, Lauren Lanahan, and Nicole M. V. Ross, "Influences of Academic Institutional Factors on R&D Funding for Graduate Students." Science and Public Policy 44, no. 6: 834-854. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scx017.
October 2017
Lanahan, Lauren, Alexandra Graddy-Reed, Maryann P. Feldman. "The Domino Effects of Federal Research Funding." Plos ONE 11, no. 6: e0157325. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157325.
June 2016
Moulton, Jeremy G., Alexandra Graddy-Reed, and Lauren Lanahan. "Beyond the EITC:The Effect Of Reducing the Earned Income Tax Credit on Labor Force Participation." National Tax Journal 69, no. 2: 261-284. https://doi.org/10.17310/ntj.2016.2.01.
June 2016
Lanahan, Lauren "Multilevel Funding for Small Business Innovation: A Critical Review of State SBIR Match Programs." The Journal of Technology Transfer 41, no. 2: 220-249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-015-9407-x.
April 2016
Feldman, Maryann P., Theodora Hadjimichael, Lauren Lanahan, and Tom Kemeny. "The Logic of Economic Development: A Definition and Model for Investment." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 34, no. 1: 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263774X15614653.
February 2016
Lanahan, Lauren, and Maryann P. Feldman. "Multilevel Innovation Policy Mix: A Closer Look at State Policies That Augment the Federal SBIR Program." Research Policy 44, no. 7: 1387-1402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2015.04.002.
September 2015
Feldman, Maryann P., Lauren Lanahan, Iryna V. Lendel. "Experiments in the Laboratories of Democracy: State Scientific Capacity Building." Economic Development Quarterly 28, no. 2: 107-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891242413490018.
May 2014

Book Chapters

Hardin, J., L. Lanahan,and L. Brun. "Assessing State-level Science and Technology Policies: North Carolina's Experience with SBIR State Matching Grants." In Oxford University Handbook of Local Competitiveness, edited by David A. Audretsch, Albert N. Link, and Mary Lindenstein Walshok, 385-400. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
August 2015
Feldman, M. P., and L. Lanahan. "Crafting a Comeback: Innovation and Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy in Mature Regions." In Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy, edited by J. R. Bryson, Jennifer Clark, and Vida Canchan, 451-473. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
June 2015
Feldman, M. P. and L. Lanahan. "State Science Policy Experiments." In The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, and Bengamin F. Jones, 287-317. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
August 2014
Feldman, M. P., A. Freyer, and L. Lanahan. "On the Measurement of University Research Contributions to Economic Growth and Innovation." In Universities and Colleges as Economic Drivers: Measuring Higher Education’s Role in Economic Development, edited by Jason E. Lane, and D. Bruce Johnstone, 97-128. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
November 2012
Feldman, M. P., L. Lanahan, and J.M. Miller. "Inadvertent Infrastructure and Regional Entrepreneurship Policy." In The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, edited by Michael Fritsch, 216-251. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
December 2011

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Lauren Lanahan

Faculty Achievements in Publication Soar

2017 Faculty and Staff Awards

Seizing Momentum

Lanahan Earns National Research Grant

UO Business: The Magazine, Winter 2016

The Domino Effect of Federal Research Funding

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New Faculty 2015