Techno-economic impacts of large-scale national R&D projects

Author

Kondo, Masayuki

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Environ. & Inf. Sci., Yokohama Nat. Univ., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 June 2012

Firstpage

88

Lastpage

93

Abstract

This paper analyzes the techno-economic impacts of large-scale national R&D projects in ten years after the projects ended. Three different types of projects are evaluated: Mass Cell Culture Project, Super Computer Project and Super Heat-Pump Project. Based on the logical framework of evaluation, four aspects are examined qualitatively. They are technological impacts, R&D capacity building, economic impacts and impacts on people´s life and society. Then, a quantitative analysis is conducted for economic impacts, including the calculation of induced production which is unique in this kind of analyses. We find that the impacts of the three projects are wide and that their economic impacts are large compared to government investment in a long run when taking into account of indirect impacts.

Keywords

critical infrastructures; heat pumps; project management; public finance; research initiatives; socio-economic effects; technology management; R and D capacity building; economic impacts; government investment; largescale national R and D projects; mass cell culture project; research and development; society impacts; super computer project; super heat pump project; technoeconomic impacts; technological impacts; Commercialization; Companies; Compounds; Computers; Economics; Heating; Production; Japan; National projects; economic impact; follow-up evaluation; largescale projects;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Innovation and Technology (ICMIT), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanur Bali

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMIT.2012.6225785

Filename

6225785