Canada’s Patent Policy Is it the best stimulus for R & D? (Cont’d)
“Expenditures on basic research increased by 2.5% in 2001, but its share of total R&D continued to decline from 12.8% in 2000 to 16.1% in 2001. This is the lowest proportion of total R&D spending on basic research ever reported by patentees since the Board began reporting such information in 1988”.
Page 28 of 2001 PMPRB Annual Report