 Knowledge spillovers and industrial policy: evidence from the Advanced Technology Program and the Department of Defense. Chapter 6 in The Economics of Adaptation and Long-term Relationships, 2019, pp 221-254 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: For a generation the federal government has maintained programs promoting research joint ventures (RJVs).The ostensible motivation late in the going was to promote knowledge spillovers.The real motivation was to stem the perceived decline of American competitiveness.It is not obvious, however, that federal government initiatives had any effect with respect to either knowledge spillovers or competitiveness.It is not obvious that public initiatives were good at identifying RJVs that would be best situated to generate spillovers.Instead, federal initiatives appear to have channeled resources to ventures that private parties could have been expected to pursue absent subsidies. The conclusion derives from examination of 171 RJV contracts.Research joint ventures involving technologies that were less susceptible to unintended spillover have tended to exploit contractual mechanisms to contain spillovers.Government-subsidized ventures were more likely to exploit those same mechanisms. Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:13892_6 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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