r&d

This pilot study examines the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step the authors match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, they compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, the paper compares these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names.

This paper assesses the performance effects of simultaneous engagement in R&D cooperation with different partners. The authors test whether these different types of R&D cooperation are complements in improving productivity. The results suggest that the joint adoption of cooperation strategies could be either beneficial or detrimental to firm performance, depending on firm size and specific strategy combinations.

In science as well as technology, the diffusion of new ideas influences innovation and productive efficiency. With this as motivation the authors use citations to scientific papers to measure the diffusion of science through the U.S. economy. To indicate the speed of diffusion The authors rely primarily on the modal or most
frequent lag. Using this measure they find that diffusion between universities as well as between firms and
universities takes an average of three years. The lag on science diffusion between firms is 3.3 years,

The focus of this paper is the representation of industrial energy technologies in a computable general equilibrium framework. CGE models are used extensively for analysis of energy and climate policy and offer several advantages. The authors demonstrate an alternative approach based on cost and performance data for specific iron and steel technologies within a CGE model of Germany.

In a spatial economy where oligopolist firms compete in R&D, it is found that geography affects the innovative behaviour of firms, according to the authors. This R&D linkage between demand and competitiveness promotes firms to strategically delocalize to the larger country. As a result, a spatial equilibrium arises with only total or partial agglomeration, but never with symmetric dispersion.

More explicitly than before, universities have become instruments of industrial and economic growth policies. This has led to an increase in accountability regimes and in the application of the so called New Public Management on universities hitherto governed by a Humboldtian, Weberian, or Mertonian norms and a high degree of internal freedom and autonomy, according to the authors. This paper reviews some of the literature on these phenomena and analyzes critically some of the positions taken.

This paper uses data on large UK firms to analyse the link between R&D and productivity over the 1989-2000 period. Using a production function approach, and a sample of up to 719 firms, various different samples and estimators are used to assess the elasticity of, and rate of return to, R&D. The results indicate that UK returns to R&D are similar to returns in other leading economies.

In this paper, the motivations of R&D by multinationals are investigated by using a large firm level dataset from Chinese official statistics on science and technology activities. Growing intensity of R&D activities is found both for foreign owned and domestic firms. But, it is also found that the R&D intensity at foreign owned firms is relatively smaller.

This study provides a statistical portrait of the strategies Canadian companies used in conducting research and development between 1997 and 2002. It is based on data from the Survey of Research and Development in Canadian Industry.

The authors analyse four East German local networks of innovators which differ in structure and innovative performance and investigate the characteristic role of public research within these local systems by applying methods of social network analysis. Results show that universities and non-university institutions of public research are key actors in all regional networks of innovators both in terms of patent output and
in terms of centrality of their position in the networks.