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Success in pharmaceutical research: The changing role of scale and scope economies, spillovers and competition

Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2010

factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R … a project differs in relation to the discovery and development stages of innovation, respectively. Our main finding is … discovery stage of innovation, while in the later development stage, the effects of competition outweigh any benefits from …

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Technological diversity and future product diversity in the drug industry

Cantner, Uwe; Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2009

This paper deals with the topic of related R&D and innovation strategies of large firms. We ask what determines the …

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Technology, competition and the time of entry: Diversification patterns in the development of new drugs

Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2009

This paper empirically investigates the determinants of R&D diversification strategies in the drug industry. It enriches the existing literature by proposing to look at diversification factors, which reflect market and technological proximity of an R&D project towards other projects within a...

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Productivity and heterogeneous knowledge: Exploring the relationship in a sample of drug developers

Bottazzi, Giulio; Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2010

This paper aims to investigate the effect of knowledge characteristics on the total factor productivity of firms developing drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. We decompose knowledge into knowledge associated with the technological firm portfolio and knowledge related to R&D projects, which...

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