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My company just had a paper accepted where we collaborated with Biogen Idec. Neither of us received government funding for the research.

Companies like OpenEye scientific publish many papers and proudly (for whatever reason) declare they have never received a government grant for their research.

When you work in an industry full of people with PhDs, lots of papers get published that didn't receive government funding; people with PhDs like to write papers.