Government contributions to patent development

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How much does government contribute to patent development? For example, specific government programmes or projects that spin-off novel designs which have commercial applications.

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The UK Government invests in Research and Development (R&D), in 2015 the Government and Research Councils invested £11.4bn. The internationally agreed criteria stipulates that the money spent on R&D must be used to increase the stock of knowledge and to identify R&D use all of these elements should be present; Novel, Creative, Uncertain, Systematic and Reproducible. Government funding of R&D is set out in the UK government expenditure on science, engineering and technology.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/researchanddevelopmentexpenditure/bulletins/ukgovernmentexpenditureonscienceengineeringandtechnology/2015

We do not collect information specifically on R&D in relation to patent development, but further information on Innovation and Patents may be available from UK Research and innovation (https://www.ukri.org/) or the UK Intellectual Property Office (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office)