The "swing of the pendulum" from public to market support for science and technology: Is the U.S. leading the way?

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 553-578

  Conceiçao, Pedro ^a   Heitor, Manuel V ^a   Sirilli, Giorgio ^b   Wilson, Robert ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Market support; Public support; Science and technology; United States

Indexed keywords

CORE ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PRIVATIZATION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; TARGETS;

PUBLIC SCIENCE; SCIENCE; STRATEGIC TARGETS;

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

INDUSTRIAL POLICY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

EID: 2442482472     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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