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22 June 2017Americas

BIO 2017: Licensing of academic patents gave $1.3tn to US output

Academic patents and their subsequent licensing contributed up to $1.3 trillion to US industry gross output between 1996 and 2015, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) has found.

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