How public investment fuels innovation: Clues from government-subsidized USPTO patents

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Highlights:

• This study is among the first attempts to depict a full picture of the public-subsidized innovation scheme.

• This study proposes a multi-dimension framework for learning public-subsidized innovation schemes—the innovation promotor, innovator, and innovation area.

• Government agencies are more and more involved in collaborative relationships.

• Non-government innovators have shown more powerful vitality than government innovators.

• Federal agencies vary in preferences to select subsidized recipients and technological fields.

摘要

•This study is among the first attempts to depict a full picture of the public-subsidized innovation scheme.•This study proposes a multi-dimension framework for learning public-subsidized innovation schemes—the innovation promotor, innovator, and innovation area.•Government agencies are more and more involved in collaborative relationships.•Non-government innovators have shown more powerful vitality than government innovators.•Federal agencies vary in preferences to select subsidized recipients and technological fields.

论文关键词:Technological innovation,Patent analysis,Government-subsidized patent,Government policy,Government-subsidized innovation

论文评审过程:Received 28 September 2020, Revised 30 May 2022, Accepted 14 July 2022, Available online 21 July 2022, Version of Record 21 July 2022.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2022.101313