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I. Introduction The literature on strategic investment in R&D in atemporal multistage games has focused on comparisons of the R&D expenditure levels obtained from models ranging from complete non-cooperation, and [...]

Opinion. Comments on the effect of intellectual property rights on the rate of formation, organization, nature of research and economic impacts of research joint ventures. Proliferation of interim cooperation in research and development; Relationship between IP rights and national innovation systems; Possibilities for increased patent harmonization.

During the past several years, policy-makers have become increasingly aware that the success of their efforts to finance and promote long-term research is dependent not only on individual programmes, institutions and infrastructure, but also on ‘portfolios’ and ‘systems’ of programmes and interventions that interact. Held in Vienna during April 2006, the conference New Frontiers in Evaluation brought together policy-makers, programme managers, scientists and evaluation experts from a variety of disciplines, and managers of science funds from around the world to address such concerns. The small collection of papers from the conference in this issue presents a select set of important issues that permeate the current debate and the evaluation frontier in terms of both conceptualisation and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information resources on technological innovations and technological research and development. Review of the book `Investing in Innovation: Creating a Research and Innovation Policy That Works,' by Lewis M. Branscomb and James H. Keller; List of summaries of papers and articles on the topic.