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Technology Transfer at U.S. Federal Laboratories: R&D --> Disclosures --> Patent Applications

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  • Link, Albert

    (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics)

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This paper describes relationships within the technology transfer process at U.S. federal laboratories. Using federal laboratory data on R&D, invention disclosures, and patent applications, aggregated to the agency level, quantitative estimates of the relationship among these metrics are presented. The policy-related finding is that a 10 percent increase in R&D per 100 scientists is associated with between a 1.52 percent and a 2.04 percent increase in patent applications per 100 scientists.

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  • Link, Albert, 2021. "Technology Transfer at U.S. Federal Laboratories: R&D --> Disclosures --> Patent Applications," UNCG Economics Working Papers 21-2, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics.
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    1. Nicholas Bloom & Charles I. Jones & John Van Reenen & Michael Webb, 2020. "Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 110(4), pages 1104-1144, April.
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    1. Leogrande, Angelo & Costantiello, Alberto & Laureti, Lucio, 2022. "The impact of patent applications on technological innovation in European countries," MPRA Paper 115346, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Technology transfer; Federal laboratory; R&D; STEM employees; Policy evaluation;
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    JEL classification:

    • H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy

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