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Studying Tech Competition through Research Output: Some CSET Best Practices

Jacob Feldgoise,

Catherine Aiken,

Emily S. Weinstein,

and Zachary Arnold

April 2023

As technology competition intensifies between the United States and China, governments and policy researchers are looking for metrics to assess each country’s relative strengths and weaknesses. One measure of technology innovation increasingly used by the policy community is research output. Drawing on CSET’s experiences over the last four years, this post shares our best practices for using research output to study national technological competition and inform public policy.

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