Dynamics and structure of federal financing US R & D abroad
Federal funding for research and development carried out by the United States outside the country is an integral part of the state policy of scientific and innovative development of the national economy. Our goal is to study the spatio-temporal features of this funding related to the volume, dynamics and structure of its implementation by the US federal government through customers, which are ministries and departments - on the one hand and countries (regions) of the world - executors of contracts in the form of specialized R & D - on the other, carried out over 70 years (1949 - 2019). Using the techniques of historical, abstract-logical and statistical-economic methods, the results are obtained that reflect the positive dynamics and flexible structure of federal funding for overseas R & D in the United States, based on scientific and technical specialization and technological cooperation. The conclusion is made about the external economic correspondence of the investigated activity to the tasks facing the United States as the main innovation center of the global world, at least in the considered “ancestral” period of time.