[CAnet - news] Innovation increasingly dependent on academic-industry partnerships

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Innovation increasingly dependent on academic-industry partnerships



New ITIF Report on the Changing Nature of the U.S. Innovation System 
  
In a new report, ITIF finds that the nature of the U.S. innovation system
has changed dramatically over the course of the last 40 years. Using an
innovative research method, UC Davis scholars Fred Block and Mathew Keller
analyze a sample of innovations recognized by R&D Magazine as being among
the top 100 innovations of the year over the last four decades.  They find
that while in the 1970s almost all winners came from corporations acting on
their own, more recently over two-thirds of the winners have come from
partnerships involving business and government, including federal labs and
federally-funded university research.  Moreover, in 2006 77 of the 88 U.S.
entities that produced award-winning innovations were beneficiaries of
federal funding. 
  
These findings suggest that to succeed in the future, U.S. innovation policy
must help support and reinforce our natural national advantage in
collaboration.  Thus, funding for the U.S. government's technology
initiatives should be expanded and made more secure, and the coordination of
these technology initiatives across the federal government, particularly
those that support partnerships between firms, universities, and federal
laboratories, must be improved. 
  
To access the report:

http://www.itif.org/files/Where_do_innovations_come_from.pdf


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