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Revision as of 18:07, 10 February 2016
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#Evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed, although these firms do prefer internal funds for financing these investments.
#There are limits to venture capital as a solution to the funding gap, especially in countries where public equity markets are not highly developed.
Research today is dominated by the very largest of firms.[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED502863.pdf (Berkley)] Corporations with over 10,000 employees still account for more than half the research spending. Those with fewer than 500 employees, a traditional definition of small a business, account for less than one-fifth of the total expenditures. These same patterns hold internationally.[http://iveybusinessjournal.com/publication/rethinking-corporate-research-and-development/]
