gov't is the preferred provider of scientific research and funding for research. That's obviously not true in pharmaceutical development
I think you're off base on this count. Maybe Dew has some sort of statistic, but the percentage of approved medicines for which federally funded academic or nonprofit collaborators contributed to the development has got to be pretty decent.
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