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Under-Reporting of R&D in Small Firms: The Impact on International R&D Comparisons

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Roper, S.

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There is a widely recognised tendency for conventional measures of R&D activity to under-estimate the R&D investments of small companies. This arises due to small firms' emphasis on developmental rather than fundamental research, and because this activity is often informally organised.

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Paper provided by Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland in its series Working Papers NIERC. with number 23.

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Date of creation: 1996
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Keywords: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ; INVESTMENTS ; ENTERPRISES;

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O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O32 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

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