Grenoble–GIANT Territorial Innovation Models: Are investments in research infrastructures worthwhile?

Laurent Scaringella and Jean-Jacques Chanaron

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2016, vol. 112, issue C, 92-101

Abstract: Over the past decades, the EU heavily invested in Research Infrastructures (RI). What are the expected returns of such investments? In the present article we address the question of returns on public funds/public infrastructures.

Keywords: Territorial Innovation Models; Research infrastructure; University; Socioeconomic impact; Start-up; Return on investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.05.026

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