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Intellectual Capital and the Birth of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises
The authors examine the relationship between the intellectual capital of scientists making frontier discoveries, the presence of great university bioscience programs, the presence of venture capital firms, other economic variables, and the founding of U.S. biotechnology enterprises during 1976-1989.
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