关键词: 美国, 天然气, 产业科技政策, 公共研发项目, 影响

Abstract: The science and technology policies of the US government and the public research projects in the country’s natural gas industry have laid a solid technological foundation for the natural gas industrial development, non-conventional natural gas in particular. The support measures include approval of the related laws and regulations from the Congress, fund for research and development, preferential taxation policies, launch of research fund, and the related public research projects managed and supported by the federal government and its departments. The formulators and executors of the US natural gas industrial science and technology policies perform their own duties with mutual cooperation among the governmental departments. Meanwhile, public research projects and corporate research projects become complementary. The public-private cooperative pattern for technological research ensures the stability of research investment and smooth conversion of research results. These policies and measure are of great significance to China in formulation of its natural gas industrial science and technology policies.

Key words: the United States, natural gas industrial, science and technology policies, public research projects, effects