According to the IFPMA, on average, a sixth of all sales in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry revenue is spent on R&D. To put things in perspective, according to

According to the IFPMA, on average, a sixth of all sales in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry revenue is spent on R&D. To put things in perspective, according to WHO, this is roughly half of what they spend on marketing. http://www.ifpma.org/fileadmin/content/Publication/2011/2011_The_Pharmaceutical_Industry_and_Global_Health_low_ver2.pdf http://www.ifpma.org/fileadmin/content/Publication/2011/2011... http://www.who.int/trade/glossary/story073/en/ http://www.who.int/trade/glossary/story073/en/