Abstract

It is generally acknowledged that the cuts in government funding for research imple- mented in several European countries will induce academic researchers to increase their interaction with non academic entities to promote the acquisition of external funding for research. Indirectly this implies that there will be a shift in the focus of academic scientific activity from basic to applied research via private research contracts and con- sultancy work. The aim of our paper is to assess the extent of the trade-off between basic research and applied activity in academic research departments. We use data for the uni- verse of Italian academic departments over the period 2006–2011 and estimate whether increased applied activity is substituting or complementing basic research activity. We provide empirical evidence of a strong substitution effect for life sciences departments and, to a lesser extent, for engineering and technology departments, while there does not seem to be evidence of a substitution effect for departments whose scientific activity revolves around basic science.

Autore Pugliese

• Muscio Alessandro

Tutti gli autori

• Quaglione D. , Muscio A. , Vallanti G.

Titolo volume/Rivista

ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY

Anno di pubblicazione

2015

ISSN

1043-8599

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Numero di citazioni Scopus

1

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