r&d

The report from the RAND Corporation assesses the federal government’s investment in the research and development (R&D) being conducted at the nation’s universities and colleges. According to the report, R&D has grown considerably in recent
years and represents a pivotal part of the U.S. innovation system.

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 study examines the effect of research and development (R&D) subsidies on the private funding of R&D in France. The author addresses this issue from the annual R&D survey over 1985-1997, which provides information about the R&D subsidies given by all the ministries to the firms having at least one full-time person working on R&D.

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.

In response to the Virginia General Assemblys HB2760, the report provides eight recommendations that can build human capital and meet a second strategy that encourages collaboration and partnerships for research and development in Virginia.

The author examines whether for two different levels of technological spillovers, cooperative research and development (R&D) behavior voluntarily arises when firms have communication possibilities. Experimental results indicate that when technological spillovers are complete and subjects communicate, R&D decisions converge to the cooperative level, while in other cases R&D decisions converge towards the Nash equilibrium.

The paper analyzes differences in research and development (R&D) spending and in the impact of R&D on productivity between German and UK firms. Using a dynamic production function approach, the authors find that the R&D output elasticity is approximately the same in both countries, implying a much larger rate of return on R&D in the UK than in Germany.