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Digital transition and the European industrial policy Open
Industrial policy has become central in the public debate after several years of neglect. Relying on contributors with different backgrounds, from academia to the public and private sectors, the book emphasizes two topics that are crucial …
Awareness and Attitudes Towards Science. The Case of CERN Open
The chapter highlights the need for public understanding and support of scientific research, especially basic research with no immediate practical applications. It discusses the polarization in public attitudes towards science and emphasiz…
A quasi-experimental design to assess the innovative impact of public procurement: An application to the Italian space industry Open
A growing number of empirical studies have shown that public procurement can be a relevant demand-side innovation policy. We assess the impact of public procurement on firms' innovation in the space industry. This is an important field of …
Projecting the socio-economic impact of a big science center: the world’s largest particle accelerator at CERN Open
Public investment in Big Science generates social benefits that can ultimately support economic growth. This paper implements a model for the social Cost – Benefit Analysis (CBA) of Big Science and relies on Monte Carlo methods to quantify…
The Socio-Economic Impact of Public Policies in the Space Sector in Italy Open
The purpose of this work is assessing the impact of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) on the innovation and performance of the Italian space system. Based on descriptive evidence from three surveys and econometric analysis using balance-sheet…
Knowledge creation: new frontiers for public investment Open
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unexpected driver of cultural change. Science and the role of governments in promoting investment in knowledge creation are now prominent in the public discourse. Suddenly, laypeople who never paid attention to …
Biomed Europa: After the coronavirus, a public infrastructure to overcome the pharmaceutical oligopoly Open
After a brief analysis of the causes underlying the failure of both governments and the pharma industry in terms of preparedness for the COVID‐19 pandemic, and after a discussion of further risks of health emergencies in the coming decades…
Patents for Covid-19 vaccines are based on public research Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reconsider the relationship between public and private research and development. The policy issue is whether, over the next 20 years, governments’ only negotiating position on biomedical technologies …
A contingent valuation experiment about future particle accelerators at CERN Open
Investment in basic science is mainly supported by government funding, but little is known about citizens’ willingness to pay for large-scale projects. A survey to a representative sample of French taxpayers, designed as a contingent valua…
Biomed Europa Open
As of June 30th, 2020, the global outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)—associated coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has claimed about 500,000 lives, with over 10 million confirmed cases and nearly 3 billion people around the world…
Science, innovation, and public services: editorial introduction Open
The quality of public services is critically influenced by innovation and, ultimately, by advances in basic research, which however embeds the feature of a global public good. Two broad issues emerge. The first concerns the evaluation of t…
Technological Learning and Innovation Gestation Lags at the Frontier of Science: from CERN Procurement to Patent Open
This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of Big Science Centres on technological innovation. We exploit a unique dataset with information on CERN's procurement orders to study the collaborative innovation process between CERN…
Initial guidelines for a social cost-benefit analysis of the FCC programme Open
A fully-fledged Social Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) of one of the Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report’s (FCC CDR) scenarios would require making assumptions on several key variables relating both with the costs and benefits ge…
Impact of CERN procurement actions on industry : 28 illustrative success stories Open
CERN is a world-renowned centre for scientific research, celebrated, amongst other feats, for its recent discovery of the Higgs boson. Behind this and other discoveries, lies a vast accelerator complex, which hosts the largest machine in t…
Should governments fund basic science? Evidence from a willingness-to-pay experiment in five universities Open
Tax-payers are usually the ultimate funders of large-scale research infrastructures (RIs), but the expected discoveries of such projects often do not have any known use-value. By interviewing 1, 022 undergraduates, we study the drivers of …
THE MECHANISMS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN SMES: A BAYESIAN NETWORK ANALYSIS OF EU REGIONAL POLICY IMPACT ON POLISH FIRMS Open
We study the underlying mechanisms of technological innovation in SMEs in the context of ex-post evaluation of European Union’s regional policy. Our aim is to explain the observed change in firms’ innovativeness after receiving EU support …
Evaluating regulatory reform of network industries: a survey of empirical models based on categorical proxies Open
Proxies for regulatory reforms based on categorical variables are increasingly used in empirical evaluation models. We surveyed 63 studies that rely on such indices to analyze the effects of entry liberalization, privatization, unbundling,…
Industrial Spillovers from the LHC/HL-LHC Programme at CERN Open
This report summarizes how the benefits for industrial partners on the LHC/HL-LHC programme can be assessed and explains the origin of these impacts. Results in this summary report form the basis for estimating the potential benefits that …
Scientific Research at CERN as a Public Good: A Survey to French Citizens. Open
CERN produces knowledge advances about the nature and the origins of the Universe, which can be considered a ‘public good’ . The provision of such public good is financed by the contributions of its Member States. Taxpayers are ultimately …
The Value of Human Capital Formation at CERN Open
This report summarises the results of the impacts of training that Early Career Researchers (ECR) experience during their activity in CERN’s LHC/HL-LHC programme. The report focuses on demonstrating the robustness of the findings by valida…
Big science, learning, and innovation: evidence from CERN procurement Open
We study the way in which public procurement by big research infrastructures enhances suppliers’ performance. Using survey data on 669 CERN’s suppliers, we built a unique data set to analyze, through an ordered logit model and Bayesian net…