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Impact of Public Basic Research on Industrial Innovation: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
The study by Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research uses the pharmaceutical industry as a case study, and suggests that the economic return on publicly funded basic research is substantial but on a time dimension that may be greater than most state and local leaders are anticipating.
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http://siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/00-07.pdf