There are very few countries that have an IP trade surplus. The U.S. is one example. Japan is another example. A lot of other countries are struggling with this problem. France, Japan, and Korea are a few examples that I've researched. There are different ways of trying to balance this.
The research shows that we don't own very much intellectual property, so we need to find creative mechanisms to encourage more creation. The SBIR, including some costs for intellectual property generation, is very important. Then being more sophisticated with what we're publicly funding is there.
I think there are a lot of good examples that come from international actors, other countries, and their national IP strategies, and what they are doing that we can learn from. The sovereign patent fund is one of the examples we studied.