Pammolli, Fabio; Rossi, Maria Alessandra; Riccaboni, Massimo - 2012
The pharmaceutical industry is a textbook example of a science based sector characterized by high R&D cost, uncertain …, Mansfield (1986) found that, absent patent protection, 60 percent of pharmaceutical inventions would not have been developed and … 65 percent would not have been commercialized. Since then, the market segment for patented pharmaceutical products has …