Capozza, Francesco; Srinivasan, Krishna; Toma, Mattie - 2025
using surveys with U.S. citizens and experts. Our evidence rejects both: a large majority of citizens do not favor cuts and …, on the contrary, prefer increasing R&D spending; and a large majority of experts judge the marginal social returns from … increasing R&D spending to be high, with the average belief placing benefits at about $3 per dollar invested. Experts …