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ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & Law

Linking R&D to employment

April 1, 2002 8:00 AM UTC

With a little more than a month until French presidential elections, the lobby group France Biotech has pushed both the left and the right in France to make commitments to new legislation for biotech.

The latest volley in France Biotech's campaign is a new academic study called "Unlocking Innovation," which shows a positive correlation between government R&D spending and improvement in unemployment rates...