r&d

The authors attempt to refine the understanding of external information flows through the construction of firm-specific measures of incoming spillovers and appropriability from survey data on Belgian manufacturing firms. Incoming spillovers measure the importance of publicly available information for the innovation process of the firm.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) report is a special update to its 1997 study of the impacts of federal R&D on the New England states. The report is one of several AAAS has done examining the impacts of federal research investments on states and regions.

The brief from the National Science Foundation shows research and development (R&D) expenditures remain heavily concentrated in a few states. The report also ranks the top ten states by individual component of R&D activity: industrial, federal and academic.

The report provides suggestions for an analytical framework to conduct the five-year assessment as well as an initial evaluation of the states research and development (R&D) support. The appendices include five case studies examining five of the larger R&D investments the state has made recently in the Maine Technology Institute, advanced engineered wood composites, biomedical research, aquaculture, and the small enterprise growth fund.

The study by Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research uses the pharmaceutical industry as a case study, and suggests that the economic return on publicly funded basic research is substantial but on a time dimension that may be greater than most state and local leaders are anticipating.

The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy report offers information on federal research activity and investment in each state. The 700-page on-line publication provides a level of detail for federal research and development in each state.

Is public R&D spending complementary and thus “additional” to private R&D spending, or does it
substitute for and tend to “crowd out” private R&D? Conflicting answers are given to this question. The authors survey the body of available econometric evidence accumulated over the past 35 years.

This article critically reviews the literature on the economic benefits of publicly funded basic research. According to the authors, from the literature based on surveys and on case studies, it is clear that the benefits from public investment in basic research can take a variety of forms.

The report provides an assessment of the economic value of medical research to challenge economists who are inclined to be skeptical about the efficiency of the “market” for health services in
general and government directed medical research in particular.

SSTIs President and Research Director co-authored the report that identifies research and development (R&D) as a fundamental economic development building block in the new economy and calls on states to invest in universities and the private sector as ways to ensure that they have strong R&D bases.