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Title: | Wishful thinking about R&D policy targets: what governments promise and what they actually deliver |
Authors: | Carvalho, Adão |
Keywords: | R&D policy R&D goals policy effectiveness R&D intensity |
Issue Date: | 7-Nov-2017 |
Citation: | Carvalho, Adão (2017), Wishful thinking about R&D policy targets: what governments promise and what they actually deliver, Science and Public Policy, on-line 7 November 2017, pp. 1-19. (https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scx069) |
Abstract: | As a revival of the 1960s, a new era of R&D policy based on R&D intensity goals gained momentum at the turn of the century with the Lisbon Agenda and Barcelona target. Setting GERD to GDP targets has become fashionable again at a much larger scale. This article is focused on assessing the effectiveness of this policy at an international level, by using a database purposefully built for this research based on information of 45 countries and 112 R&D intensity targets. The results show a consistent pattern of failure of this policy across countries and at country level, and only exceptionally a country was able to reach the intended R&D intensity targets. Governments have been promising much more than they are capable of delivering but, paradoxically, the popularity of the R&D intensity indictor remains high despite the complete lack of effectiveness of R&D policy based on R&D intensity targets. |
URI: | https://academic.oup.com/spp/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/scipol/scx069/4600797?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scx069 http://hdl.handle.net/10174/21830 |
Type: | article |
Appears in Collections: | ECN - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica CEFAGE - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica
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