The purpose of the technical meeting is to discuss on the present state and challenges related to economic impact analysis from R&D investment and its  application for policy planning by using macro-econometrical model.

In the technical meeting, some presentations were made related to the current status of the data collection on each field’s knowledge stock, the outlines and evaluation results of the existing macro-econometrical model such as Economic and Fiscal Model used by Cabinet Office, what the model should be in order to evaluate the impact from R&D investment, and the status overseas, etc. 

After the presentations, the open discussion was held among participants.