US Grants Research Articles

Cross comparison of US, EU, JP and Korean companies patenting activity in Japan and in the Peoples Republic of China

The purpose of this article is to compare and contrast the patent filing statistics of selected US, European, Japanese and Korean companies in Japan and China with their granted patent statistics in the USA to discern patenting in China trends. The companies are IBM, Canon, Hitachi, Fujitsu, SONY, NEC, Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric, Matsushita, Samsung, LG Electronics, Siemens, Philips, Intel, Motorola, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Lucent Technologies, Procter & Gamble, 3M and Kodak, and comparison charts are provided for each. The results suggest that a number of major Korean and European companies are now filing as many applications in China, and for LG Electronics twice as many, as the numbers of US granted patents they are obtaining. For most of the selected Japanese companies Chinese filings are now about half that of their US grants. For the selected US companies, the comparison is rather different because US grants result from home filings, but indicate that these companies are only filing Chinese applications, and also often Japanese applications too, at a rate that is a small fraction of their US grants.

Peanut Butter Patents Versus the New Economy: Does the Increased Rate of Patenting Signal More Invention or Just Lower Standards?

The rate of patenting in the U.S. has exploded in the last half of the 1990s. It is widely believed that the increase in patent grants is at least partly a result of the apparent decline in examination standards. There has been little exploration, however, of the theoretical prediction that a decline in examination standards would itself induce an increase in dubious applications. We estimate a simultaneous equation model, in which the number applications depend on the perceived rigor of the examination process, amongst other things and patent grants depend on the number and quality of applications. We have a multi-dimensional panel, with data on the application and grant rates for each year, countries of origin, and jurisdiction of examination. We find that a ‘loosening’ of the grants standards by one percent increases applications by 8 percent in the full sample and by 3 percent in the Non-US sample. This result points to the importance of accounting for the endogenous application response specially for the US case. Controlling for this effect, we find that application elasticity of grants is around 0.124 for the full sample and 0.145 for the Non-US one, and is declining over time in both. In addition countries with higher US grant propensities have more grants in Non-US Non-US as well. All the above evidence contradicts the belief that the US patent surge is an artifact of declining US examination standards. We conclude that changes in the underling invention rate are at least partly responsible for US patent explosion.

US Research Grants Are Critical to Former Soviet Weapons Scientists, but Not a Long-Term Solution

Russia and other former Soviet republics inherited a massive nuclear weapons program they could no longer afford. Thousands of former weapons scientists have been subsidized by US grants, but finding them permanent, civilian jobs has proven to be extremely difficult.

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Variation in rhetorical moves in grant proposals of US humanists and scientists

Grant proposals are a significant part of professional writing. Described as 'the most basic form of scientific writing' (Myers 1990: 41), they are the key to obtaining research funding and support for professional activity. Recently, grant proposals have been included among promotional genre studies by applied linguists, and moves' have been suggested for the rhetorical structures in the texts of EU grant proposals (Connor and Mauranen, 1999). The present study uses these moves to analyze rhetorical variation in 14 research grant proposals written by five humanities and science researchers for US government and private funders. The major purpose of the study was to determine the accuracy with which the moves were identified with the writers; the use of the moves among the five different disciplines and by male and female writers was also studied. Text-based interviews were conducted with the writers following the text analysis of grant proposals. The results showed that the system of moves was clear and meaningful to the researcher-writers, but that US grant proposals required an additional 'institutional commitment' claim, a hypothesis statement in addition to goals, and more metatextual transitional statements than the proposals in the earlier EU study

US and German Lectureship Grants

US and German Lectureship Grants

US grants support teraflop computing simulations

The US Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced grants worth $250 million over 10 years to five universities to help to develop the computational aspects of its effort to simulate phenomena associated with nuclear weapons.