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Side note, looking at patents to identify #breakthroughs doesn't really work as

1. It requires quite a large investment which disfavors smaller institutions

2. The distribution of patents that actually make money is so incredibly skewed that university patents should considered such a bad investment, that it wouldn't be a good metric anymore.




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