Is Italian R&D spending becoming more efficient?
Journal title ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE
Author/s Andrea Conte
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/2
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 187-198 File size 598 KB
DOI 10.3280/POLI2009-002009
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Is Italian R&D spending becoming more efficient? - The recent economic downturn is putting increasing pressure on governments to improve the quality of their public finances. Using macro-economic data on R&D expenditures and patents, this paper aims to determine whether business and government R&D spending has become more efficient over time and in comparison to other EU countries. Descriptive evidence is coupled with empirical estimates of cross-country efficiency of R&D expenditure calculated by the Stochastic Frontier Analysis. .
Keywords: R&D, patents, efficiency, public finance
Parole chiave: R&S, brevetti, efficienza, finanza pubblica.
Jel Classification: O33 - H50 - C23
Andrea Conte, Is Italian R&D spending becoming more efficient? in "ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE " 2/2009, pp 187-198, DOI: 10.3280/POLI2009-002009