Erschienen in:
01.02.2016 | Editorial
Academic–Industry Research Partnerships: an Emerging Opportunity or Just Smoke and Mirrors?
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2016
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Excerpt
It is a time of famine for clinical research, and academic investigators have had to hunt for viable funding sources. While inflation-adjusted public funding for biomedical research has declined over the past two decades, private industry’s share of the funding pie has increased by 13 %.
1 The pharmaceutical industry has historically been eager to partner with academic investigators both to tap the academic talent pool and to enhance the credibility of its conclusions. In this month’s issue of the
JGIM, Tierney et al. consider situations in which academic–industry partnerships might be both ethical and mutually beneficial.
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