R&D Policy in Israel: An Overview and Reassessment, Science, Technology and the Economy Program STE-WP-2
The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of R&D policy in Israel, and critically examine the policies currently in place as well as proposals to change them. We review in Part I the various programs of the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Israel, […]
Do R&D Subsidies Stimulate or Displace Private R&D? Evidence from Israel, Science, Technology and the Economy Program (STE) – Working Papers Series STE-WP-1
In evaluating the effect of an R&D subsidy we need to know what the subsidized firm would have spent on R&D had it not received the subsidy Using data on Israeli manufacturing firms in the 1990s we find evidence suggesting that the R&D subsidies granted by the Ministry of Industry and Trade stimulated long-run company-financed […]
Innovation in Israel 1968-1997: A Comparative Analysis using Patent Data, Science, Technology and the Economy Program STE-WP-5
The Israeli high tech sector is widely regarded as a hotbed of cutting-edge technologies, and as the growth engine of the Israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for the past 30 years, with the aid of highly detailed patent data. We use […]
