There are various data sources available to use for technology transfer benchmarking purposes.
Federal agencies provide summaries of research funding and expenditures, as do many states.
This annual survey summarizes data from the roughly 175 U.S. and Canadian research universities that are AUTM members. As one might imagine, not all institutions reporting to AUTM organize their research and technology transfer numbers similarly. This results in some inconsistencies in the survey results. AUTM requests that the universities report those annual research expenditures only for research activities that are likely to result in licensable inventions. For these reasons, the benchmarking numbers are good qualitative indicators, but are not quantitatively accurate.