Table 2

Federal Funding of R&D in California

Federal Funding of R&D in California

Year
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
R&D obligations (millions of dollars)
14,884
11,280
12,704
12,658
13,731
12,222
15,600
14,083
12,651
15,686











Industry R&D (millions of dollars)
26,541
28,541
28,710
28,710
34,011
35,568
39,047
45,769
41,745
39,664
Academic R&D (millions of dollars)
2,380
2,484
2,594
2,791
2,979
3,302
3,573
4,053
4,422
4,882
     life sciences (percent)
58.00%
58.00%
57.00%
56.00%
56.00%
57.00%
56.00%
58.00%
58.00%
58.17%
     engineering (percent)
13.00%
13.00%
13.00%
14.00%
15.00%
15.00%
15.00%
15.00%
13.00%
13.08%
     physical sciences (percent)
13.00%
12.00%
12.00%
13.00%
13.00%
12.00%
12.00%
12.00%
11.00%
10.63%
Number of SBIR awards*
850
1,012
968
971
1,046
937
992
953
1,036
1,236
Utility patents issued to state residents
8,958
9,263
10,473
11,290
15,793
16,774
17,492
ND
18,598
18,829
Department of Defense (millions of dollars)
9,525
6,598
7,272
7,798
8,171
6,437
9,252
7,717
5,822
7,915

*In addition to SBIR and STTR awards, California firms received 184 ATP awards from 1990–2004

Lenoir and Giannella Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:11   doi:10.1186/1747-5333-1-11