{"id":1703,"date":"2012-06-12T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=1703"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:42:11","slug":"government-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/06\/12\/government-and-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Government and Economic Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Fred Block and Matthew R. Keller, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org\/sites\/default\/files\/ssn_key_findings_block_and_keller_on_government_and_innovation.pdf\">&ldquo;The Vital Role of Government in U.S. Economic Innovation,&rdquo; <em>Scholars Strategy Network: Key Findings<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2012<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Can government encourage innovation and economic growth, or is it just a drag, an obstacle? According to the authors, almost all of the recent breakthrough technologies successfully marketed by U.S. firms enjoyed crucial government support for the original research and steps toward commercialization. If you don&#8217;t believe it, all you need to do is look\u00a0at your iPhone, your new car, or a major appliance, and you will see technologies nurtured to commercial fruition by support from public sector agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Block and Matthew R. Keller, &ldquo;The Vital Role of Government in U.S. Economic Innovation,&rdquo; Scholars Strategy Network: Key Findings, 2012 Can government encourage innovation and economic growth, or is it just a drag, an obstacle? According to the authors, almost all of the recent breakthrough technologies successfully marketed by U.S. firms enjoyed crucial government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[131,886,37336],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-economy","tag-innovation","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8334,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/8334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}