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ACS’s Science & the Congress Project Where Do Innovations Come From? Source: Fred Block and Matthew Keller, “Where Do Innovations Come From ? Transformations in the U.S. National Innovation System, 1970-2006,” Working Paper, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Washington, D.C.

R&D 100 Awards "The Oscars of Invention"- The Chicago Tribune For 45 years, the prestigious R&D 100 Awards have been helping companies provide the important initial push a new product needs to compete successfully in the marketplace. The winning of an R&D 100 Award provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the product is one of the most innovative ideas of the year.

Past winners of R&D 100 Awards include “Polacolor film (1963), the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine (1973), the halogen lamp (1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (1980), the printer (1986), the Kodak Photo CD (1991), the Nicoderm antismoking patch (1992), Taxol anticancer drug (1993), lab on a chip (1996), and HDTV (1998).

Figure 1: Public vs. Private vs. Foreign 90 80 70 60 Total Private Total Public and Mixed r a Total Foreign w 50 A f o r e b m 40 u N 30 20 10 0 1971 1975 1979 1982 1984 1988 1991 1995 1997 2002 2004 2006 Year

Figure 2: Solo Fortune 500 vs. Total Fortune 500 60 50 47 41 41 s 40 d 40 38 r 37 a 35 w A 31 Solo Fortune 500 f 29 30 o Total Fortune 500 r 26 e b m 22 u 20 N 18 15 14 14 13 11 9 9 10 7 6 5 5 2 0 1971 1975 1979 1982 1984 1988 1991 1995 1997 2002 2004 2006 Year

Figure 3: Federal Labs vs. Spinoffs vs. Other Public 50 44 45 42 42 40 38 38 38 35 30 Number of Awards 26 Federal Lab Solo 25 24 Federal Lab Collaborative Supported Spinoff Universities and Other Public 20 15 15 15 13 11 11 10 10 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 6 5 5 4 4 4 5 4 4 3 1 2 2 1 1 0 1971 1975 1979 1982 1984 1988 1991 1995 1997 2002 2004 2006 Year

Figure 5: Awards to SBIR Firms 30 25 25 22 22 21 20 Number of Awards 15 13 11 10 8 4 5 1 0 0 0 0 1971 1975 1979 1982 1984 1988 1991 1995 1997 2002 2004 2006 Year

Figure 6: Trends in Federal Funding of Innovation 90 80 70 60 Number of Aw 50 Federally Funded Private Public and Mixed 40 30 20 10 0 1975 2006 Year

Figure 7: Awards to Universities, Solo or in Collaboration 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 1971 1975 1979 1982 1984 1988 1991 1995 1997 2002 2004 2006

Figure 4: Awards to Inter-Organizational Collaborations 80 70 60 Number of Awards 50 40 30 20 10 0 1971 1975 1979 1982 1984 1988 1991 1995 1997 2002 2004 2006 Year