Thank you for writing this up! It's clear NIH spending does impact patent filings. The research leads to drug creation.
I'm wondering -- does this imply we should *increase* the NIH budget? What of study design would help us understand the marginal impact of each extra NIH budget dollar at different budget sizes?
Thank you for writing this up! It's clear NIH spending does impact patent filings. The research leads to drug creation.
I'm wondering -- does this imply we should *increase* the NIH budget? What of study design would help us understand the marginal impact of each extra NIH budget dollar at different budget sizes?