r&d

The economic letter discusses how the unique economic
nature of R&D may bear on the question of the constitutionality of state R&D tax credits.

This study elucidates how firm location and corporate structure influence R&D-intensity, external collaboration on innovation, return on R&D and economic performance. The study, based on 1,907 firm level observations, essentially compare a functional region with four other regional areas in Sweden.

The objective of this study by the European University Association is to illustrate needs and potential methods for gathering systematic data and an analysis of key elements of the funding of research and innovation in Europe.

This Commentary re-examines the interaction between productivity growth and innovation and Canadian government policy in the field. The paper’s major conclusions are that R&D performance in Canada has been weak, in part because of structural factors related to Canada’s large natural resource base and the agglomeration of manufacturing in the centre of the country.

In this paper, a Grossman-Helpman-Romer-type endogenous growth model is developed with two regions in which there are mobile workers and linkage between consumption goods and differentiated intermediate goods.

The author suggests that such practices of open knowledge disclosure can be deliberate strategies aiming at solving adverse selection problems that arise when firms try to find partners with whom to cooperate in R&D.

This study is an attempt to measure the effects of industry, group, and firm on R&D behaviour of the firm and their interaction. The study uses both continuous and categorical variables in an ANCOVA setting.

The analysis presented in this chapter is based on the two last R&D surveys organized by IWT in 2000 and 2002. These surveys are addressed to the Flemish firms operating in the private business sector.

Three strategies for scientific research in management are examined: advocacy, induction, and multiple hypotheses. Advocacy of a single dominant hypothesis is efficient, but biased. Induction is not biased, but it is inefficient.

An attempt is made in this paper to illustrate the dangers inherent in the exploratory approach of research. The question of whether the potential benefits are large enough to outweigh the dangers is left to the reader.