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Research & Innovation Analytics Latest snapshot 2026-08-06

NIH/NSF Innovation Chain Scoreboard — Funding → Papers → Patents

Institution-level research-commercialization league table built from 3.5M NIH/NSF awards: 8,470 organizations scored on funding-to-publication and funding-to-patent conversion, with 400k project-level chain records each linking back to its official NIH RePORTER source URL.

Records
494,156 records
Refresh
Annual (with NIH RePORTER / NSF releases)
Formats
CSV + Parquet
Coverage
United States
Packages
1
Total volume
27.1 MB

Slices from

$199

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What you get

  • org_innovation_scoreboard — 8,470 institutions: awards, projects, total funding, linked publications & patents, pubs-per-$M and patents-per-$100M conversion rates
  • org_year_trends — 85,699 institution × year funding trend rows (1985–2025)
  • project_chain_detail — 399,987 NIH projects with ≥1 linked publication or patent, incl. official source URL per row
  • Methodology doc + reproducible pipeline reference

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Coverage statistics

Records
494,156
Largest package
27.1 MB

Available packages

Real contents of the current builds — row counts, sizes and checksums come from the packaging manifest, not estimates.

Built packages for Innovation Chain Scoreboard
Slice Scope Rows Size Snapshot Monthly
Innovation Chain Scoreboard — full package 494,156 27.1 MB $199 $79/mo

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 1 packages, 27.1 MB total , 494,156 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

PackageDateRowsSizesha256Access
innovation-chains-tier1-full-2026-08-06.zip2026-08-06494,15627.1 MBPaid

How to get this data

All packages are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub: free/open packages live in a public dataset repo (direct downloads, no signup); paid or restricted editions are delivered from a private repo with token access after approval.

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Pricing for Innovation Chain Scoreboard
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Innovation Chain Scoreboard — full package $199 $79/mo Request quote

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Update frequency & delivery

  • Built from NIH RePORTER and NSF awards data (US federal public domain) via the DataForge research-grants pipeline.
  • Chain funnel covers NIH (official publication/patent link tables); NSF awards contribute to the funding side only — documented in the methodology.

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

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Can I use this data for AI training?

Yes — with the AI-Training license tier (1.5× the base price). See the License page for details.

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