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Title: Market place for R and D outcomes: its function and significance in the innovation process

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:5553435

The market place for research and development (R and D) outcomes, an important economic institution in the innovation process, is examined in this study. R and D outcomes, or the goods being exchanged in the market place, are bundles of property rights associated with the output of whatever R and D activities have already been completed during the course of R and D efforts. Such efforts are directed toward producing or lead to the production of technological innovations. The study has three objectives: (1) to develop a theory of the market place for R and D outcomes and demonstrate that it has significant utility in explaining the economics of technological innovation; (2) to illustrate how application of the theory helps explain the behavior of actors in the innovation process as they engage in a variety of innovative activities and as such activities occur under different situations; and (3) to utilize the theory to explain the role of government policy in the innovation process. These objectives are achieved by first developing a typology of transactions or categories of exchange in the market place.

Research Organization:
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis (USA)
OSTI ID:
5553435
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English