Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

We quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our article makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to develop a method for flexibly linking specific grant expendi...

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Main Authors: Azoulay, Pierre (Contributor), Graff Zivin, Joshua S (Author), Li, Danielle (Contributor), Sampat, Bhaven N (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-02-27T15:33:20Z.
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