Economic evaluation of technological change

An International Conference on the Economic Evaluation of Technological Change will take place in Washington DC, USA, on 15-16 June 1998. The conference, which is organized by the Advanced Technology Programme (ATP) of the US Department of Commerce and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), will focus on the effects of government investment in science and technology in advanced industrial economies.

The goal of the conference is to advance the state of the art of evaluating the impacts of government investment in high-risk research aimed at developing enabling technologies of the type funded by the ATP. The meeting will bring together government R&D policy makers, analysts and R&D managers with academic and other researcher studying technology evaluation issues. It is expected that the presentations will facilitate comparisons of evaluation methods and practices in different countries.

Appropriate topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

- Measurement of R&D spillovers;
- Effects of collaborative research and development;
- The impact of subsidies and tax incentives on private sector R&D substitution;
- Complementarity between private and public R&D;
- Issues concerning the commercialization of goods and services resulting from innovation.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 31 January 1998.
For further information, please contact:

Advanced Technology Programme
Dr. Richard Spivack
NIST
Administration Building, Room A303
Gaithersburg MD 20899
Tel. +1-301-9755063; Fax +1-301-9754776
E-mail: richard.spivack@nist.gov
URL: http://www.atp.nist.gov(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)