 Current and future trends in European technological development: New patterns in the funding of R&DDale Littler and Rod Coombs European Management Journal, 1988, vol. 6, issue 2, 102-113 Abstract: The authors evaluate European Research and Development against a background of unevenly rising R&D gross spending, development in strategic technologies, the dominance of four fields of technological change, technological convergence, and Europe's comparative weakness in R&D faced with Japan and the United States. They are optimistic about total future funding for R&D, although increasing attention will be paid to its efficiency. Most striking however, are the authors' warning signals that basic research is likely to continue to decline in Europe as frontier technological research (in the medium term) and applications-oriented work (even shorter term) become the focus of attention, particularly by corporations. The reasons for this are explored, and in their prescriptions the authors urge European Public Sector R&D to harness a Private Sector R&D trend by directing its efforts towards collaborative applications of technology into "quality of life and environment fields", namely new environmental, health and education markets. It will have competitive advantages as well as life-enhancing effects. Date: 1988 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:eurman:v:6:y:1988:i:2:p:102-113 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article European Management Journal is currently edited by Michael Haenlein More articles in European Management Journal from Elsevier |
Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute.
Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to .
EconPapers is hosted by the
School of Business at Örebro University.