r&d

The action plan highlights that despite significant strides in increasing public investment in research and development over the last five years, the performance of research and development (R&D) in key sectors of the Irish economy is low compared with leading knowledge based economies. The plan calls for a step change in the R&D performance, particularly in the enterprise sector, in order to sustain employment and competitiveness in an increasingly global knowledge-based economy.

There are two central issues within this paper. First how does the exogenous increment in knowledge
capital determine current aggregate R&D effort or in the size of the R&D sector and secondly, how do parameters feed into the determination of the rate of expected growth?

The authors provide new insights into how the internationalisation of R&D of these Finnish multinationals is also reflected in their innovative output as measured by patenting. The results indicate that inventor teams have grown in size over time, especially through the entry of U.S., German, Swedish and U.K. inventors.

In this paper, the authors test the pooling assumption for the determinants of industry R&D investment. For a panel of UK manufacturing industries they find that pooling is only valid for output fluctuations, lagged R&D and real interest rates.

This paper aims at explaining how proximity between firms affects cooperation in R&D. For that purpose, it is proposed a three-stage game amongst three firms where each firm decides about location, R&D and output. Firms’ decision about location determines a R&D spillover, which is inversely related to the distance between firms.

In this study, the Wisconsin Technology Council has examined the extent of academic R&D in Wisconsin, how much is being spent on such research,
the sources of the funds, and the effect of academic R&D spending on the general economy.

The aim of this paper is to review a sample of important contributions of the ES works published to date. To do this, the selected works have been classified in four key topics: business implications, technical issues, managerial issues, and implementation issues.

As innovation and technology management grow in complexity, the need for inter-organizational cooperation increases, according to the author. To further this understanding we introduce a typology to help categorize various collaborative efforts within a research joint venture environment.The typology is based on two dimensions the locus of the research joint venture knowledge and the knowledge management approach.

Within the study, the authors show that it is optimal for a government to provide higher R&D subsidies the lower the level of trade costs, even if the firms are independent monopolies.

This article provides a first empirical study of the
determinants of the propensity to which academic scholars tend to perform interdisciplinarity research.