Evaluating governmental support to automotive research and development (R&D): A Swedish case
Journal article, 2012

One objective of evaluating governmental R & D investments is to learn from the past and improve future activities. This paper discusses R & D evaluation methods using empirical data covering more than 15 years of publicly (co-)funded automotive R & D in Sweden, with a particular focus on public-private R & D partnerships. One contribution of the paper is that it illustrates the need to add a systemic level to the programme and project level in traditional R & D evaluation methods. Further, it argues for diversity in public R & D funding in terms of instruments used and in the selection of actors, activities and technologies to be sponsored. This diversity is threatened in the Swedish automotive context, as the public-private R & D partnership programmes (which give priorities to the industrial actors in the agreement) appear to crowd out other types of public R & D investments.

Sweden

Research and development

Automotive

Public-private

Partnership

Evaluation

R&D

Policy

Author

Hans M Pohl

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Entrepreneurship and Strategy

International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management

1470-9511 (ISSN) 17415012 (eISSN)

Vol. 12 1 1-21

Subject Categories

Economic Geography

Public Administration Studies

Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified

DOI

10.1504/IJATM.2012.046002

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