Over the past 60 years the United States has created the world's largest system of government laboratories. The impact of the laboratories on the private economy has been little studied though their research accounts for 14% of total U.S. R&D, more than the R&D of all colleges and universities...

Over the past 60 years the United States has created the world's largest system of government laboratories. The impact of the laboratories on the private economy has been little studied though their research accounts for 14% of total U.S. R&D, more than the R&D of all colleges and universities...

Although federal laboratory research accounts for 14percent of United States research and development, few investigators haveconsidered the influence of federal laboratory R&D on industrialresearch.The literature on endogenous R&D spillovers suggests thatCooperative Research and Development...