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Campus Study Shows Federal Funding Boosts Innovation

The study analyzed tens of millions of U.S. patents and scientific papers and found that patenting’s reliance on federal science has increased over the past 90 years. Those patents that arise from federally-funded science are more highly cited, renewed, and novel than others, the analysis found. https://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/government-funding-increasingly-fuels-innovation/?utm_source=Berkeleyan&utm_campaign=7fd5601395-berkeleyan&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_99ee3800d7-7fd5601395-388726225