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Impacts of academic R&D on high-tech manufacturing products: tentative evidence from supercomputer data

  • Thanh Le
  • , Kam Tang

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    Abstract

    This paper empirically examines the impact of academic research on high-tech manufacturing growth of 28 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and emerging countries over the 1991–2005 period. A standard research and development (R&D) expenditure based measure is found to be too general to capture the input in high-tech research. To overcome this problem, a novel proxy for high-tech research investment – the supercomputer capacity – is proposed. Empirical evidence strongly supports this choice of variable. It is also found that academic R&D exerts a larger growth effect on high-tech output than its industry and government counterparts, but only the impact differential between academic and government R&D is statistically significant.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)957-971
    Number of pages15
    JournalStudies in Higher Education
    Volume40
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 3 Jul 2015

    UN SDGs

    This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    1. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
      SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

    Keywords

    • academic R&D
    • high-tech
    • industry R&D
    • manufacturing
    • supercomputer
    • technology

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