Productivity and government policy towards R&D

  • Rupert Harrison

Published on 10 February 2005

This lecture, for the IFS Public Economics Lectures series, focuses on why there is a productivity gap between the UK and some other countries, notably the US, why we want to reward R & D and ways to do this through the tax system.

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This lecture, for the IFS Public Economics Lectures series, focuses on why there is a productivity gap between the UK and some other countries, notably the US, why we want to reward R & D and ways to do this through the tax system.

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Rupert Harrison

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IFS

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Harrison, R. (2005). 'Productivity and government policy towards R&D' [Presentation]. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/productivity-and-government-policy-towards-rd-0 (accessed: 1 July 2024).

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