Papers and Proceedings of the Advanced Technology Program's InternationalConference on the Economic Evaluation of Technological Change Held June 15-16, 1998, at the Georgetown University Conference Center, Washington, D.C

摘要

This publication contains the Papers and Proceedings of the InternationalConference on the 'Economic Evaluation of Technological Change.' This collection of Papers relates to the evaluation of the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) and selected foreign public investment programs in technology research and development (R&D). The ATP is the nation's civilian technology program charged with improving the competitiveness of U.S. business by providing funding for promising high-risk technology R&D projects that are deemed to be too risky to be supported by the private sector. The common element of all Papers and presentations is an emphasis on the empirical assessment of the effects of government investment in science and technology on advanced industrial economies.