Document Type
Discussion Paper
Publication Date
2-1-1988
CFDP Number
862
CFDP Pages
79
Abstract
In this paper, we describe the results of an inquiry into the nature of appropriability conditions in over one hundred manufacturing industries, and we discuss how this information has been and might be used to cast light on important issues in the economics of innovation and public policy. Our data, derived from a survey of high-level R&D executives, are informed opinions about the nature of an industry’s technological and economic environment rather than quantitative measures of inputs and outputs.
Recommended Citation
Levin, Richard C.; Klevorick, Alvin K.; Nelson, Richard R.; and Winter, Sidney G., "Appropriating the Returns from Industrial R&D" (1988). Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers. 1105.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cowles-discussion-paper-series/1105