> Does anyone have access to data and success stories of state-funded research and innovation, please. The obvious one is, of course, NASA in the USA.
Also in the U.S., the pharmaceutical industry has benefited massively from the National Institutes of Health and the like, and Boeing from military contracts. Agribusiness has had enormous support in the U.S. at the federal and state level (think of all those land grant universities - UC-Davis is practically a subsidiary of California ag).