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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski.

In the United States, we spend about $160 billion a year on R&D.

And so over the last seven years, we've spent about a trillion dollars.

With about 250,000 inventions that are sitting on the shelf that have more than 13 years of patent life,

and only 0.5 to 0.7% of the inventions that are

federally funded get out a year. So what does that mean get out, that they're actually

commercialized? They're found, and then they're commercialized. Rosemary Truman, founder and CEO of

the Center for Advancing Innovation, a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit. She spoke at the first Science Meets

Congress event on November 15th on Capitol Hill. Scientific American and Nature Research partnered

with California Congressman Jerry McNerney, he has a doctorate in math, by the way, to host

the session, which focused on energy solutions for a sustainable future.

So some of the challenges that we have are, first of all, finding these inventions.

So I just mentioned the ones that are patented, so you can find them through the USPTO,

but they're about five times to ten times the amount that are not patented, that are not disclosed.

So the energy efficiencies and tools of the future

could be sitting there on the shelf, either patented or not. You know, what I think our big

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