31. Because other countries have drug price controls, the pharmaceutical industry earns most of its profits, and conducts most of its basic research, in the United States. 32. Basic research has always been mainly supported by the public sector. 33. Bellcore, he said, never really intended to do such basic research. 34. Because little has been done beyond the level of basic research, everybody is free to toy with a favorite fantasy application. 35. After World War II, American business wanted to pour money into basic research with the idea that new products would materialize. 36. All the funds from the patent are used for unrestricted basic research by Columbia. 37. Brown said such agreements probably would include clinical research at the hospitals, in conjunction with the basic research carried out at the institute. 38. But as a student a student in Baylor University, he says he needs a computer to at least write term papers and to do some basic research. 39. But even much of this basic research, critics contend, consists of collecting reams of data on earth movements that are not well disseminated to others. 40. But clinical practice was not his first love, Sokoloff said, and he soon returned to the institute and to basic research. |