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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation : Evidence from the Human Genome
Williams, Heidi L. - 2014
Do intellectual property (IP) rights on existing technologies hinder subsequent innovation? Using newly-collected data on the sequencing of the human genome by the public Human Genome Project and the private firm Celera, this paper estimates the impact of Celera's gene-level IP on subsequent...
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How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels
Sexton, Steven - 2015
Increased global demand for biofuels is placing increased pressure on agricultural systems at a time when traditional sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of food prices. This paper estimates the impact of global adoption of genetically...
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Genetic Adverse Selection : Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance and Huntington Disease
Oster, Emily F. - 2009
Individual, personalized genetic information is increasingly available, leading to the possibility of greater adverse selection over time, particularly in individual-payer insurance markets; this selection could impact the viability of these markets. We use data on individuals at risk for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156533
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The Value of Pharmacogenomic Information
Graves, John - 2017
Pharmacogenomics, or the application of genetic testing to guide drug selection and/or dosing, is often cited as integral to the vision of how precision medicine can be integrated into routine clinical practice. Yet despite a growing base of scientific discovery on genetic variation that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941158
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Risks to the Returns to Medical Innovation : The Case of Myriad Genetics
Clemens, Jeffrey P. - 2015
We describe the broad range of uncertainties faced by the developers of medical technologies. Empirically, we estimate the asset market incidence of two realizations of uncertainties we classify as within-market policy risks. The events we analyze concern the intellectual property of Myriad...
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The Future of Drug Development : The Economics of Pharmacogenomics
Vernon, John A.; Hughen, W. Keener; Vernon, John A. - 2021
This paper models how the evolving field of pharmacogenomics (PG), which is the science of using genomic markers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311658
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Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools
Schankerman, Mark A.; Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2021
Profit on proprietary research tools is determined partly by the remedies for infringement, such as damages and injunctions. We investigate how damages under a liability rule and the opportunity for injunctions under a property rule can affect the incentives to develop research tools. We show...
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The Impact of Information Technology on Scientists' Productivity, Quality and Collaboration Patterns
Ding, Waverly W. - 2012
This study advances the prior literature concerning the impact of information technology on productivity in academe in two important ways. First, it utilizes a dataset that combines information on the diffusion of two noteworthy and early innovations in IT -- BITNET and the Domain Name System...
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Retractions
Azoulay, Pierre - 2014
To what extent does "false science" impact the rate and direction of scientific change? We examine the impact of more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065177
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Evaluating the Role of Science Philanthropy in American Research Universities
Murray, Fiona - 2014
income, university research funding from science philanthropy is $7Billion a year. This major contribution to U.S. scientific … in this paper demonstrates that science philanthropy provides almost 30% of the annual research funds of those in leading … universities. And yet science philanthropy has been largely overshadowed by the massive rise of Federal research funding and, to a …
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