Israel offers contingent subsidies to selected industrial R&D projects, with the purpose of creating high-quality jobs, reducing the trade deficit, increasing productivity and promoting growth. In 1987-94, 1,200 firms received $1,400 million of subsidies in support of $3,500 million of R&D (in...

Technological Infrastructure Policy provides a systematic treatment of technological infrastructure (TI) and Technological Infrastructure Policy (TIP) which are emerging fields of interest both for academic economists and for policy makers in both advanced and developing economies. The specific...