ABSTRACT
Interest in the geographical dimension of research and development was stimulated originally by policy makers concerned with balance in the regional allocation of federal R&D funds between the use of the existing R&D capabilities on the one hand and a desire for an equal distribution of government funds and development of new R&D capabilities on the other. As a consequence, data has been accumulated over the past decade so that it is now possible to obtain some general indicators not only of government spending for R&D but also of the spatial dimension of industrial, governmental and academic R&D in the United States in general.
