The methodology developed by the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) for the economic evaluation of the indirect effects of large public R&D programmes is described, with special reference to space projects. It is designed to provide a minimal estimation, with the use of direct...

Better mechanisms are needed for evaluating important market and non-market effects of large technological programmes that are not properly captured by existing methods. This paper presents a framework that permits the direct and indirect economic effects from large R&D programmes to be...