TY - JOUR
T1 - An analysis of the critical role of public science in innovation
T2 - The case of biotechnology
AU - McMillan, G. Steven
AU - Narin, Francis
AU - Deeds, David L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the National Science Foundation Contract No. SRS-9301815.
PY - 2000/1
Y1 - 2000/1
N2 - Recent studies have found that the overall US industrial base relies heavily on public science, i.e., knowledge that originates from universities, research institutions, government laboratories, etc. This research effort narrows the focus to examine the public science linkage for an important, relatively new industry: biotechnology. Our results indicate that the biotechnology industry depends on public science much more heavily than other industries. In addition, we found that biotechnology companies rely on public science for very basic scientific research, that there is a strong national bias in the citation patterns, and that biotechnology firms rely on science to a much greater extent than large, diversified pharmaceutical companies do.
AB - Recent studies have found that the overall US industrial base relies heavily on public science, i.e., knowledge that originates from universities, research institutions, government laboratories, etc. This research effort narrows the focus to examine the public science linkage for an important, relatively new industry: biotechnology. Our results indicate that the biotechnology industry depends on public science much more heavily than other industries. In addition, we found that biotechnology companies rely on public science for very basic scientific research, that there is a strong national bias in the citation patterns, and that biotechnology firms rely on science to a much greater extent than large, diversified pharmaceutical companies do.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0048-7333(99)00030-X
DO - 10.1016/S0048-7333(99)00030-X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001292109
SN - 0048-7333
VL - 29
SP - 1
EP - 8
JO - Research Policy
JF - Research Policy
IS - 1
ER -