I would guess that there is a lot of relevant work in economics. In particular work that asks what kind of incentives (e.g. in terms of patents, intellectual property regulation, etc.) a social planner would need to set to achieve a “socially optimal” level of R&D expenses by private actors. This isn’t exactly what you’d want to know, but I expect that sometimes it would be able to extract possible “levers” that could apply at the level of specific sectors and that could also be pulled on by actors other than government.
I recommend asking someone with an econ background, perhaps at GPI.
I would guess that there is a lot of relevant work in economics. In particular work that asks what kind of incentives (e.g. in terms of patents, intellectual property regulation, etc.) a social planner would need to set to achieve a “socially optimal” level of R&D expenses by private actors. This isn’t exactly what you’d want to know, but I expect that sometimes it would be able to extract possible “levers” that could apply at the level of specific sectors and that could also be pulled on by actors other than government.
I recommend asking someone with an econ background, perhaps at GPI.