Government R&D expenditure and space

Empirical evidence from five industrialized countries

authored by: Rolf G. Sternberg
Abstract: In all industrialized countries several ministries pursue technology policies, but only in Germany and France are there special ministries for research and technology carrying out explicit technology policy. In the USA, Great Britain and France, in particular, public spending on defense is most relevant technologically. In this study, this kind of unintended technology policy will be referred to as "implicit". Only a minor part of national R & D activity is initiated with regional goals in mind. The major part by far aims for national competitiveness. The central hypothesis of this paper is that government R & D spending generates unintended spatial effects which are far more consequential than the intended ones. This study attempts to explain the phenomenon. The technology policies of the five major industrialized countries (USA, Germany, Japan, France and Great Britain) will be analyzed and the general tendency of governments to spatially 'cluster' their R & D assistance will be discussed. The empirical section of this paper focuses on the relationship between government R & D spending and employment in the high-technology sector.
External Organisation(s): University of Cologne
Type: Article
Journal: Research policy
Volume: 25
Pages: 741-758
No. of pages: 18
ISSN: 0048-7333
Publication date: 08.1996
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Strategy and Management, Management Science and Operations Research, Management of Technology and Innovation
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(95)00860-8 (Access: Closed)

BibTeX

@article{2429b0b8f9ac4b8db63ecf4fb6580117,
title = "Government R&D expenditure and space: Empirical evidence from five industrialized countries",
abstract = "In all industrialized countries several ministries pursue technology policies, but only in Germany and France are there special ministries for research and technology carrying out explicit technology policy. In the USA, Great Britain and France, in particular, public spending on defense is most relevant technologically. In this study, this kind of unintended technology policy will be referred to as {"}implicit{"}. Only a minor part of national R & D activity is initiated with regional goals in mind. The major part by far aims for national competitiveness. The central hypothesis of this paper is that government R & D spending generates unintended spatial effects which are far more consequential than the intended ones. This study attempts to explain the phenomenon. The technology policies of the five major industrialized countries (USA, Germany, Japan, France and Great Britain) will be analyzed and the general tendency of governments to spatially 'cluster' their R & D assistance will be discussed. The empirical section of this paper focuses on the relationship between government R & D spending and employment in the high-technology sector.",
author = "Sternberg, {Rolf G.}",
note = "Funding information: ~This paper is based on research supported by the German Research Association concerning data on R&D expenditure I would, most notably, like to thank Donald A. Hicks (University of Texas, Dallas) in the US; Alan Ward (Department of Trade and Industry) and Adam Boiland (Ministry of Defence) in the UK; Kenji Yamamoto (Hosei University, Tokyo) in Japan, as well as Harald Legler (Institute of Economic Research in Lower Saxony) in Germany. Special thanks go to Harald Bathelt (University of Giessen) for his comments on correlation and regression procedures. Of course, the author alone bears responsibility for any errors or misinterpretations. I would also like to express appreciation to two anonymous reviewers for several important comments",
year = "1996",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1016/0048-7333(95)00860-8",
language = "English",
volume = "25",
pages = "741--758",
journal = "Research policy",
issn = "0048-7333",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "5",
}