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This paper examines R&D activities in the European Community using several Community R&D Information Service (CORDIS) databases. We find that a country’s private companies tend to be specialized in the same scientific fields as its universities and public organizations. In addition, we construct indicators of the degree of R&D tacitness and find that greater expected ability to communicate research outcomes encourages less centralized R&D programs. Programs that yield tangible results are less geographically and administratively centralized. The more that research leads to codifiable knowledge, the less centralized R&D activity needs to be.
National Bureau of Economic Research. Lichtenberg is grateful for support from the National Science Foundation under award no. 9408915. We benefitted from the comments of two anonymous referees on a previous draft of this paper. We are responsible for any errors.
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Feldman, M.P., Lichtenberg, F.R. (2000). The Impact and Organization of Publicly-Funded Research and Development in the European Community. In: The Economics and Econometrics of Innovation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3194-1_7
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