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11 Cross-Cutting Data Issues
Pages 39-41

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From page 39...
... data on R&D of firms with foreign direct investment nor with the Patent and Trademark Office's patent records nor with the Census R&D laboratory information reported in the Auxiliary Establishment Survey. Beyond the difficulties of linking technology-related data lie the challenges of relating innovation data to relevant economic data.
From page 40...
... Nevertheless, Steve Landefeld made the encouraging observation that although considerable economic data are acquired by BEA under the condition that they not be linked to other data, a 1990 law allows BEA' s foreign direct investment and services data to be linked to Census Bureau establishment data.7 Furthermore, proposed legislation would allow broad data sharing among BEA, the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and most of the principal U.S. statistical agencies.
From page 41...
... It was not the intention of the sponsors of this one-day workshop to examine in depth the practical considerations that would determine the feasibility of the suggestions offered by participants. Nevertheless, the workshop did underscore the limitations on resources and the need for private-sector cooperation through, among other means, identification of essential information, exploration of common interests in acquiring information useful to both public policy makers and corporate managers and investors, and, when appropriate, formation of data collection and dissemination partnerships on a cost-shared basis.


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