Toward an Assessment of Impacts from U.S. Technology and Innovation Policies

Barry Bozeman () and Albert Link

No 14-5, UNCG Economics Working Papers from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics

Abstract: Five important policy initiatives were promulgated in response to the slowdown in U.S. productivity in the early-1970s, and then again in the late-1970s and early-1980s. These initiatives included the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, the Stevenson-Wydler Act of 1980, the R&E Tax Credit of 1981, the Small Business Innovation and Development Act of 1982, and the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984. Scholars and policy-makers have long debated the direction and magnitude of impacts from these policies but empirical evidence remains modest, especially evidence of their aggregate effects. Our assessment of these policies is based on quantifying their collective impact on industrial investments in R&D in the post-productivity slowdown period. Our findings support the conclusion that the relative levels of industrial investments in R&D from 1980 forward were significantly higher than before, ceteris paribus.

Keywords: technology; innovation; R&D; policy assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H50 O31 O33 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2014-08-14
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