r&d

Changes in Federal and Non-Federal Support for Academic R&D Over the Past Three Decades

The National Science Foundation Info Brief outlines trends over 30 years in federal and non-federal support for academic research and development (R&D). The brief reports that while federal spending for academic R&D grew by an inflation adjusted 180 percent between 1972 and 2000, the findings reveal federal support played a diminishing role compared to non-federal sources, which grew by nearly 350 percent during the period.

More Research for Europe

The European Commission presented its strategy to respond to the Barcelona European Councils call to raise research spending to 3 percent of the European Unions average Gross Domestic Product by 2010. The report states that Japan already has achieved the 3 percent level and the U.S. is coming closer and that coordinated action at European, national and regional levels is necessary to make Europe more attractive to business investment in research and development.

University Decentralization as Regional Policy: The Swedish Experiment

This study relies upon a twelve-year panel of output, employment and investment for Swedens 285 municipalities, together with data on the location of university researchers and students, to estimate the effects of exogenous changes in educational policy upon regional development. It finds important and significant effects of this policy upon output and productivity, suggesting that the economic effects of the decentralization on regional development are economically important.

Research and Development Funding: Reported Gap Between Data From Federal Agencies and Their R&D Performers Results From Noncomparable Data

Findings of the report indicate that the gap results primarily from annually comparing two separate and distinct types of financial data—federal obligations and performer expenditures—that are not comparable.