Data for "A new approach to measuring invention commercialization: An application to the SBIR program"

This database collects and links U.S. federally funded awards to U.S. utility patents, and such patents to web pages signaling commercialization outcomes. It forms the basis of the data used in our paper, published in Research Policy (10.1016/j.respol.2025.105302). Specifically, this database contains information on awards provided by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) within the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) programs from 1984 to 2018.The database is composed of three main elements: awards, patents, and web pages. Information about the awards comes from the Defense Contract Action Data System (DCADS), for the years 1984-2001, and from USAspending.gov, for the years 2001-2018. Most information related to patents comes from PatentsView, and some specific details are obtained from the Patent Examination Research Dataset (PatEx) or from PATSTAT. The information about web pages has been collected by the authors from web crawls. The paper contains a companion Appendix that provides additional supporting information.本数据库收录并关联美国联邦资助项目与美国实用专利，并将此类专利与标注商业化成果的网页进行关联，为发表于《Research Policy》（DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105302）的本研究论文提供了核心数据基础。 具体而言，本数据库涵盖1984年至2018年间，美国国防部（U.S. Department of Defense, DoD）依托小企业创新研究（Small Business Innovation Research, SBIR）与小企业技术转移（Small Business Technology Transfer Program, STTR）计划发放的资助项目信息。该数据库由三大核心模块组成：资助项目、专利及网页数据。其中，1984-2001年的资助项目信息源自国防合同行动数据系统（DCADS），2001-2018年的数据则取自USAspending.gov；专利相关信息主要来源于PatentsView，部分细节信息获取自专利审查研究数据集（PatEx）或PATSTAT；网页信息则由研究团队通过网页爬取工作采集得到。 本论文附带配套附录，提供了更多支撑性补充信息。