Pop-Up Journal - Classic Studies of R&D Returns

One of the objectives of this project is raising current researchers' knowledge of classic studies of the rate of return on R&D. To advance this goal this webpage will feature a number of research studies that have made durable contributions as well as a list of other papers. Please send suggestions of other papers to include to tsimcoe@bu.edu.

Griliches Z. (1979) "Issues in Assessing the Contribution of Research and Development to Productivity Growth." Bell Journal of Economics 10(1): 92–116.

Jones C. and Williams J. (1998) "Measuring the Social Return to R&D." Quarterly Journal of Economics 113(4): 1119–1135.

Hall B., Jaffe A., and Trajtenberg M. (2001) “The NBER Patent Citation Data File: Lessons, Insights and Methodological Tools.” NBER Working Paper Series: w8498.