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Dollars For Genes: Revenue Generation By The California Institute For Regenerative Medicine, Richard J. Gilbert
Dollars For Genes: Revenue Generation By The California Institute For Regenerative Medicine, Richard J. Gilbert
Richard J Gilbert
Proponents of the $3 billion ballot initiative that created the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) forecast that CIRM-funded research would earn royalty income in the range of $537 million to $1.1 billion. Using data on past licensing revenues as well as expected discoveries, this paper estimates that CIRM licensing income will be only a few percent of expenditures and California’s share of this licensing income will be less than one percent of R&D expenditures in current dollars. The allocation of these relatively small revenues is of secondary importance to the greater objective of disseminating CIRM-funded stem cell technology quickly …