Federal Policy and the Development of Semiconductors, Computer Hardware, and Computer Software: A Policy Model for Climate Change R&D?

This paper draws on presentations at the conference on “The Government’s Role in Technology Innovation: Development of Insights for Energy Technologies,” Washington, D.C., February 11, 2002, and the NBER meetings on “Federal R&D Programs and Global Warming,” November 1, 2008 and April 3, 2009. I have benefited from comments by Lewis Branscomb, Iain Cockburn, Kira Fabrizio, Rebecca Henderson, David Popp, Scott Stern, Richard Nelson, and the late Vicki Norberg-Bohm and Kenneth Sokoloff. Portions of this paper draw on Mowery and Rosenberg (1999) and Fabrizio and Mowery (2007). Research for this paper was supported in part by funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (Cooperative Agreement #0531184).

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