I guess that the Yale University visiting scholar who wrote the paper above forgot that "more than 40 per cent of global R&D is now performed by just 200 companies" meaning that its corporations more than countries that invest heavily in research https://sciencebusiness.net/news/governments-risk-losing-control-over-direction-technology-research-oecd-warns
Also probably if the author was not so self-obsessed (his paper has 42% self-citations) he could have cited the work of Klavans & Boyack (2017) on the fact that some countries have more altruist research agendas than others https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0169383
