Liu, Ya-Ming; Kao Yang, Yea-Huei; Hsieh, Chee-Ruey - In: Social Science & Medicine 72 (2011) 6, pp. 919-927
In recent years, a substantial amount of technological progress in medicine has taken the form of pharmaceutical innovation. This paper uses the launch of a series of new drugs designed for treating type 2 diabetic patients as an example to investigate the determinants that affect the diffusion...