Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …

healthcare, discourages cost cutting and encourages wasteful innovation. For one, Medicare pays physicians and hospitals … separately, preventing integration and delivery innovation because most providers cannot afford to adopt a noncompliant …

proposals have been framed as issues of access and spending. If innovation incentives come up at all, it has primarily been … because pharmaceutical companies claim that reducing drug prices will threaten innovation by lowering the returns from their … patents.In fact, however, pharmaceutical access and innovation incentives are intimately related. Health insurance can change …

in Brazil, focuses on current issues in intellectual property, innovation and development policy from a Brazilian … to copyright, free software and open business models, patent reform and access to medicines, and open innovation in the …

wisdom that more IP protection is necessarily better for innovation and development …

pandemic; and more specifically for competition authorities, as demonstrated for example by the role innovation played in the … innovation debate, notably in the pharmaceutical industry, by giving an overview on firm and market-level incentives to carry out … research and development (R&D). Understanding these innovation incentives is relevant for a proper competition assessment where …

and technological innovation - proposes an international framework to coordinate and facilitate national responses to … international framework convention on innovation and regulation, which could be supplemented by specific protocols in particular …