This paper examines the economic impact potential of a major innovative effort by the US Government to systematically coordinate, implement, and manage a technical infrastructure to support innovation and subsequent market penetration of advanced material technologies. Called the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), this high-tech infrastructure consists of a range of policy instruments that can be used to leverage the efficiency of both research and development and production. To determine and rank the potential economic impacts of various MGI infrastructure targets and thereby provide policy input for portfolio management, surveys were conducted to obtain industry estimates of materials infrastructure needs. From these surveys, the economic benefits of implementing the MGI were calculated. The analysis projects potential economic benefits from an improved materials innovation infrastructure of between $123 billion and $270 billion per year.

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高科技基础设施和经济增长：材料基因组计划

本文研究了美国政府进行的一项重大创新努力的经济影响潜力，该努力系统地协调、实施和管理技术基础设施，以支持先进材料技术的创新和随后的市场渗透。这种被称为材料基因组计划 (MGI) 的高科技基础设施由一系列政策工具组成，可用于提高研发和生产的效率。为了确定和排名各种 MGI 基础设施目标的潜在经济影响，从而为投资组合管理提供政策投入，我们进行了调查以获得行业对材料基础设施需求的估计。从这些调查中，计算了实施 MGI 的经济效益。