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Dynamics of global disclosure through patent and journal publications for biopharmaceutical products

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Examining the relationships between invention disclosure type in industry and academia and geographical disclosure trends, using plant-made pharmaceuticals as a single-sector model for the biopharmaceutical industry.

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Figure 1: Temporal trends in volumes of biopharmaceutical patent and journal disclosures.
Figure 2: Relative contribution of industry and academia to PMP patent and journal disclosures.
Figure 3: Disclosures according to the country affiliation of inventors and authors.
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This research was performed through an EU Framework Programme 6 grant–Pharma-Planta project and with support from the Sir Joseph Hotung Endowment Fund. We wish to thank L. Nelsen, E. Nettleton and R. Mahoney for critical reading of the manuscript.

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