The Role of R&D in Industrial Policy: Rise and fall of a research driven strategy for industrialisation

Olav Wicken

No 20070603, Working Papers on Innovation Studies from Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo

Abstract: R&D has played a central role in Norwegian public industrial policy for only a relatively short period. Before 1963, there was little interest in linking technological research policy to a wider national industrial strategy. During the mid 1960s, attempts were made to link public research more closely to industrial development, and the state became more engaged in funding industrial R&D. During the 1980s, governments increased public industrial R&D funding substantially, and for a short period of time research became a core element in national industrial policy. However, from the early 1990s the situation again changed. Public research policy lost its significance in wider national industrial strategies.

Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2007-06
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