Sirilli, Giorgio - In: Science and Public Policy 25 (1998) 5, pp. 305-311
Various countries have been collecting R&D data for more than 30 years on the basis of the OECD ‘Frascati Manual’ which sets forth a harmonised methodology for collecting, compiling and analysing the data. At this stage we need to come back again to some basic issues for two reasons: first,...