Professor Anne Marie Knott’s, award-winning research tool RQ (Research Quotient) is now available via Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), the data research platform and business intelligence tool for corporate, academic and government institutions worldwide.

“WRDS is very happy to offer RQ to our academic subscribers,” said Robert Zarazowski, Managing Director of WRDS. “We know that R&D plays a critical role in both firm growth and valuation, and I’m confident that RQ will be extremely useful to WRDS users.”

“I’m very excited WRDS is hosting RQ,” said Professor Anne Marie Knott. “It’s important for academics to make data available for study replication, but because RQ is derived from Compustat, I didn’t have permission to do that. WRDS solves that problem. Not only can scholars replicate RQ studies, but they can also retest prior innovation studies using patents. Since we now know patents don’t match expectations for a measure of R&D productivity, we think a number of prior results may be overturned.”

RQ enables researchers to link R&D to firm growth and market value; derive optimal firm R&D spending; examine revenue generation from R&D and assess undervalued firms. Used for notable academic research on R&D, and developed by Anne Marie Knott, Professor of Strategy at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, RQ is key for R&D-related inquiries.

RQ is available at no cost to academic institutions that maintain a subscription to S&P Capital IQ Compustat. A part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, WRDS provides thought leadership, data access and research insight to corporations, universities and regulatory agencies worldwide.

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