r&d

The statistical report from the National Science Foundation includes 112 tables reporting federal research and development obligations for fiscal years 2001-03.

The biennial report of the National Science Board indicates that the U.S. now ranks 17th among nations surveyed in the proportion of its 18- to 24-year-olds earning natural science and engineering degrees. In 1975, the U.S. ranked third. State indicators are presented in 25 tables across six categories.

The report from the National Bureau of Economic Research develops a model to analyze patent-protected research and development (R&D) investment projects when there is competition in the development and marketing of the resulting product. Implementation of the model shows that competition in R&D not only increases production and reduces prices, but also shortens the time of developing the product and increases the probability of successful development.

The analysis found Oklahoma improved from 43rd in the U.S. in per capita income in 2000 to 40th in 2002. In the same time period, Oklahoma improved from 41st to 31st in the nation in university research and development (R&D), and from 30th to 28th in federal R&D.

The paper examines new high-tech establishments in U.S. counties, focusing on their relationship with university research and development. A conditional logit-Poisson model is used to estimate the determinates of business establishment births appearing from the mid 1990s through 2000.

The National Science Foundations survey refers to science and engineering expenditures for separately budgeted research and development (R&D). The data was collected from 609 institutions of higher education in the U.S. and outlying areas and the survey coverage was expanded to collect information on R&D about each of the Nations 36 federally funded research and development centers.

The report details the universities economic and social impact in 2000 and 2002 and finds that research and technological developments at the universities contribute to creating and growing local industries such as computing, information technology, medical devices, biotechnology and genetics.

Based upon field studies, the authors show that knowledge sharing mechanisms have a different value for industrial research practices. Therefore, knowledge management in R&D should facilitate and stimulate a broad portfolio of knowledge sharing mechanisms.

The 2001 survey of industrial research and development (R&D) expenditures from the National Science Foundation (NSF) found that company funding of R&D totaled $181.6 billion in 2001. Before adjusting for inflation, the amount is up from the 2000 total of $180.4 billion. In constant dollars, industrial R&D expenditures declined less than one percent.

The author presents an endogenous growth model that studies the effects of local inter-industry and intra-industry knowledge spillovers in R&D on the allocation of economic activities between two regions.