With policymakers looking for hard evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of federal programs, a new study of federal patent output by the Battelle Technology Partnership Practice (TPP) provides some new insight into certain federal research programs and their substantial role in generating growth-enhancing innovations.
Image: This chart is based upon federal government interest data set with 63,699 distinct patents.It includes the specific 14 NIH ICs with at least 400 patents from the NIH government interest/adjusted data set. Credit: Battelle TPP Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-fueling-economy-impacts-federal.html#jCp
