r&d

The authors assess and discuss the effect of endogenizing this uncertainty on optimal R&D investment trajectories and carbon emission abatement strategies.

In this paper, the authors discuss various options to include human capital, R&D and product market competition in a macroeconomic framework. They also study how policy can affect the decisions to build human capital or to perform research, and how competition policy impacts on macroeconomic outcomes.

The author studies whether R&D-intensive firms are liquidity-constrained, by also modeling their antecedent decision to apply for credit. Findings indicate that firms with no or low R&D intensity to be less likely to request extra funds.

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of research cooperation between firms and Public Research Organisations for a sample of innovating small and medium-sized enterprises. The econometric analysis is based on the results of the KNOW survey carried out in seven EU countries during 2000.

This paper analyses Canadian Government attempts to encourage and measure commercialization of university knowledge for social improvement.

The largest-ever evaluation of an Irish research programme has concluded that the PRTLI is “the beginning of a major and most beneficial transformation of the research landscape of Ireland that will help to install an innovation-driven economy”. The Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions is managed by the country’s Higher Education Authority.

During the years, a large number of formal studies have presented evidences of a positive impact of university R&D on firm performance in general and on the location of industrial R&D, in particular. The question is does it also work the other way around? Does industrial R&D function as an attractor for university R&D? What are behavioural relationships between industrial R&D and university R&D and vice versa? The fact that knowledge flows seem to be spatially bounded implies that

The authors construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in effect, whereby late movers have a comparative disadvantage.

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the locational relationship between industry R&D and university R&D in Sweden using a simultaneous equation approach and to analyse existing differences between different science areas and different industry sectors.

The authors contribute to the debate on research performance by comparing the distribution of
research inputs and outputs across Australian universities during 1992-2003. Research-input measures have remained relatively unevenly distributed across universities.