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Trends and patterns in research and development expenditures in the United States
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... This is true of both overall expenditures and expenditures on basic research, as well as funding of academic research. Preliminary estimates indicate that about $170 billion was spent on R&D in the United States in 1995, with ~60% of that funding coming from the private sector and about 35~o from the federal government.
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... Jankowski, personal communication (Division of Science Resource Studies, National Science Foundation)
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... (We will see below, however, that the United States is unique in devoting this large a share of public support of academic research to life sciences.) All of these major categories saw significant real increases in the last 15 35 30 25 20 10 Universities and Colleges ~ it_ o 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 FIG.
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... Jankowski, personal communication (Division of Science Resource Studies, National Science Foundation)
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... Here the United States is again near the bottom of the pack, exceeding only Japan in its support for academic research as a fraction of GDP. To the extent that academic R&D comes closer to being a "pure" public good than private research, however, then the view that it is the total and not the ratio that counts may apply.
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... 12. What stands out is that while the United States spends about half of its government support of academic research on life sciences, the other countries all spend more like one-third.
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