Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R&D

Margaret E. Blume-Kohout, Krishna B. Kumar, Neeraj Sood

NBER Working Paper No. 15146
Issued in July 2009

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We are very grateful to Bhaven Sampat and Pierre Azoulay for providing analytic data files, and to Sean Nicholson and RAND Labor & Population seminar attendees for helpful comments. M. Blume-Kohout also gratefully acknowledges partial funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and the Kip & Mary Ann Hagopian and Anne & James Rothenberg dissertation awards at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. These sponsors have had no role in our study design, analysis, interpretation of data, or writing, and will not influence the eventual decision whether to submit this paper for publication. An earlier draft of this paper was also submitted as part of a workshop organized and funded by the Office of Science Policy Analysis, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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