Federal R&D and Industrial Innovative Activity

本项目的目的是调查 联邦研发的私人研发支出水平， 工业研究与发展实验室及其研究与发展的组成 输出. 使用公司层面的数据，作者实证检验， 理论主张1）公司必须分享的越多 其研发产出的技术知识，收益越小 对于自筹资金研发的公司（即，可占用性 问题）; 2）联邦研发补充私人研发; 3）增加 在公司资助的研发，与固定水平的政府工业- 研究与发展经费的减少，导致公共财政支出水平的下降， 研发成果知识的共享; 4） 企业分享技术知识的方式取决于一些 政府资助工业研究发展的准则。 这些结果将有助于进一步了解 联邦在促进工业研发活动和经济发展方面的作用 增长 因此，该项目将有助于基金会的 为政策提供信息来源的责任 在科学和技术领域的制定。

This purpose of this project is to investigate the influence of Federal R&D on both the level of private R&D spending in industrial R&D laboratories and the composition of their R&D output. Using firm level data, the authors test empirically the theoretical propositions that 1) the more a company must share its R&D-produced technical knowledge, the smaller is the benefit to the company of self-financed R&D (i.e., the appropriability question); 2) Federal R&D complements private R&D; 3) an increase in company-financed R&D, with fixed levels of Government industr- ial R&D funding, results in a decrease in the level of public sharing of the R&D-produced knowledge; and 4) the degree to which firms share their technical knowledge depends to some extent on Government's criteria for funding industrial R&D. The results should provide further understanding of the Federal role in promoting industrial R&D activities and economic growth. The project thereby will contribute to the Foundation's responsibility to provide a source of information for policy formulation in the area of science and technology.