La Legge Regionale n. 7/2007 a favore della Ricerca Scientifica in Sardegna

This thesis focuses on the nature and dynamics of funding regimes for public sector research in Sardinia and the impact of these policies can give for innovation and development. In Sardinia, public research funding has been justified by market failures arising from the inherent public nature of scientific research. Markets fail to provide sufficient incentives for investment in research and the public sector can contribute for enhancing scientific knowledge. Sardinia island have introduced a specific reform in his research funding systems in order foster excellence, knowledge transfer and socio-economic innovation. The reform is well known in the regional context as a "L.R 7 del 2007". Between 2008 – 2015 the regional government have funded more than 170 milions for projects and initiatives in the island, most for project-based where scientists obtain funds from their research. Scope of the work is to explore in more than 8 years activities of the reform in terms of model adopted and main results achieved, especially in priority research sectors for the regional government