Fig 1.
Panel A provides key descriptive statistics about the 3PFL database. Panel B displays the distribution by agency of patents and scientific publications associated with contracts and grants. Panel C reports the distribution of R&D contracts and patents by R&D stage.
Fig 2.
The lag is computed as the difference in months between the date of first priority of the patent application and the date of first signing of the contract (panel A) or the latest end date of the contracts (panel B).
See S1 File for additional notes.
Table 1.
Contract-patent lag and R&D stages.
Table 2.
Patent value and contract-patent lag.
Fig 3.
Panel B displays how much each of the two agencies involved have proportionally contributed to the development of the patent, based on the size of each contract, for contracts in which either the Department of Defense (left) or the Department of Energy (right) was the largest contributor.
See SI for additional details.
Table 3.
Patents per contract and contract size.
Table 4.
Patent value and dual funded patents.
Fig 4.
Panel A reports the distribution of the total dollar amount received for R&D procurement contracts as a percentage of GDP by state. Panel B displays the distribution of total number of R&D contracts that are associated with at least one patent by Core Based Statistical Areas.