Can Financial Economics Cure Cancer?

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Funding for early-stage biomedical innovation has become more difficult to secure at the same time that medical breakthroughs seem to be occurring at ever increasing rates. One explanation for this counterintuitive trend is that increasing s...

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Main Author: Lo, Andrew W (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-08-03T17:57:20Z.
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