The report introduces the U.S. Corporate research and development (R&D) data series to provide new information and context on the R&D activity of the Nation’s top 500 R&D spending corporations. Data is based on the Standard and Poor’s Compustat database.
The report expands and updates the information contained in an earlier study based upon 1992 data. It examines a wide range of practical questions and policy concerns arising from the rapid growth of the
global R&D enterprise.
The report by the National Science Board provides informaion on S&T resources needed by policymakers, industry and academia in weighing policy options. New features include several reflections on futre pressures and possible trends coupled with the identification of a number of important data and information gaps.
According to the author, research and development collaboration is a means, not an end. Moreover, the dearth of systematic analysis and evaluation of existing federal policies toward collaboration hampers efforts to match the design of collaborative programs to the needs of different firms, industries, or sectors.
The authors analyze a model of research joint ventures (RJV) with asymmetric firms and differentiated products. They then test the various explanations for RJV formation using data now available through the U.S. National Cooperative Research Act.
The aim of the paper is to theoretically and empirically analyze the role that aggregate R&D-expenditures play in the growth of per capita income. Another goal of the paper is to analyze how R&D-expenditure affects productivity growth using cross-country data.
The report explores the major factors influencing the
location decisions of foreign research and development (R&D) facilities in the United States. Findings indicate that investment motivations for U.S. R&D abroad and for foreign R&D in the United States are strikingly similar.