A Primer on the Public Sector R&D Enterprise

Peter D. Linquiti
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Peter D. Linquiti: George Washington University

Chapter 2 in The Public Sector R&D Enterprise: A New Approach to Portfolio Valuation, 2015, pp 5-44 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The US government spends $30 billion per year on applied, nondefense R&D. Chapter 2 provides a holistic overview of how this R&D enterprise operates.Context is set with a review of the political, economic, and institutional forces that shape R&D programs. A logic model framework is used to describe the inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts of public sector R&D. This expansive approach makes the subject more complex, but protects the reader from analytic myopia—a failure to recognize all of the drivers of success and failure. The primer aspires to provide readers who have a limited background in the field a readily accessible entry point to the world of government R&D programs.

Keywords: economics of R&D; government research and development; logic models; politics of R&D; R&D program evaluation; technology diffusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137542090_2

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