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R&D in services industries and the EU-US R&D investment gap

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  • Vincent Duchêne
  • Elissavet Lykogianni
  • Arnold Verbeek

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This paper focuses on the impact of differences in practice between European and US national statistical offices when classifying R&D expenditure by industry. We examine the impact of these differences on the role of the services sector in the EU-US R&D investment gap. According to official statistics, services industries appear to explain nearly the entire EU-US R&D intensity gap (US services have much higher R&D intensities). We argue that this is almost entirely the result of a statistical artefact: EU statistical offices redistribute R&D in the services sector to the corresponding manufacturing sectors to a much greater extent than in the US. Thus the EU R&D deficit against the US does not specifically emanate from the services sector. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Vincent Duchêne & Elissavet Lykogianni & Arnold Verbeek, 2010. "R&D in services industries and the EU-US R&D investment gap," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 37(6), pages 443-453, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:37:y:2010:i:6:p:443-453
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    1. Ortega-Argilés, Raquel & Piva, Mariacristina & Vivarelli, Marco, 2011. "Productivity Gains from R&D Investment: Are High-Tech Sectors Still Ahead?," IZA Discussion Papers 5975, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Pietro Moncada-Paternò-Castello & Sara Amoroso & Michele Cincera, 0. "Corporate R&D intensity decomposition: different data, different results?," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 47(4), pages 458-473.
    3. Anders Broström & Eric Giertz, 2021. "Service development accounts for an even smaller share of European R&D investments than we may think," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 46(4), pages 1256-1267, August.

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