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- Title
Economic Theory and Government Technology Policy.
- Authors
Mowery, David C.
- Abstract
Recent federal proposals and program experiments aimed at improving the innovative performance of American industry have been based on an inappropriate analytic framework. The neoclassical microeconomic analysis upon which these proposals are based emphasizes the undersupply of R & D. However, a more crucial problem in this context is the utilization of complex research results by firms and industries with low levels of in-house research expertise. This problem is a central concern of an alternative approach to the analysis of innovation, termed the information processing framework. This analytic approach, which receives empirical support from an examination of previous cooperative research programs in the United States and Great Britain and an analysis of independent consulting firms' operations, suggests that cooperative or extramural research does not function effectively as a substitute for in-house research. Public policies to encourage innovation should be attentive to the distribution, as well as the supply, of R & D.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED Kingdom; INFORMATION science; MICROECONOMICS; INFORMATION processing; ELECTRONIC data processing
- Publication
Policy Sciences, 1983, Vol 16, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0032-2687
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00138466