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Technology transfer: Industry-funded academic inventions boost innovation

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Brian D. Wright and colleagues present data challenging the assumption that corporate-funded academic research is less accessible and useful to others.

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  1. Brian D. Wright is professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.,

    Brian D. Wright

  2. Kyriakos Drivas is a postdoctoral research economist at the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, and a research fellow at the University of Piraeus, Greece.,

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  3. Zhen Lei is assistant professor of energy and environmental economics at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, USA.,

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  4. Stephen A. Merrill directs the US National Academy of Sciences' Program on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in Washington DC, USA.,

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