Although electricity losses constitute an important, but inevitable, amount of wasted resources (and a share that has to be funded), they remain one of the lesser known parts of an electricity system, and this despite the fact that the decisions of generators, transmission and distribution...

The implementation of public programs to support business R&D projects requires the establishment of a selection process. This selection process faces various difficulties, which include the measurement of the impact of the R&D projects as well as selection process optimization among projects...

Analysis of the effects of public financing on private investment in R&D has been the object of numerous applied studies without it having been possible to arrive at a definite conclusion. In this paper, the results of a meta-regression of econometric evidence on the relationship between public...