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Pharmaceutical M&A activity : effects on prices, innovation, and competition
Richman, Barak; Mitchell, Will; Vidal, Elena; Schulman, … - 2017
The rise of blockbuster pharmaceutical acquisitions has prompted fears that unprecedented market concentration will weaken competition. Two of the most prominent concerns focus on the upstream and downstream ends of the pharmaceutical industry: (1) the concern that these mergers will concentrate...
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Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment
Frankel, Alex; Krieger, Joshua L.; Li, Danielle; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine the role of spillover learning in shaping the value of exploratory versus incremental R&D. Using data from drug development, we show that novel drug candidates generate more knowledge spillovers than incremental ones. Despite being less likely to reach regulatory approval, they are...
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The effect of intellectual property rights on domestic innovation in the pharmaceutical sector
Gamba, Simona - 2016
This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of …. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …
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Evaluating the US pharmaceutical patent policy
Izhak, Olena; Saxell, Tanja; Takalo, Tuomas - 2021
The debate on whether COVID-19 vaccine patents are slowing down the pace of vaccination and the recovery from the crisis has brought the optimal design of pharmaceutical patent policy to the fore. In this paper we evaluate patent policy in the US pharmaceutical industry. We estimate the effect...
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The impact of the entry of biosimilars : evidence from Europe
Scott Morton, Fiona; Stern, Ariel D.; Stern, Scott - 2017
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Do patents really foster innovation in the pharmaceutical sector? : results from an evolutionary, agent-based model
Dosi, Giovanni; Palagi, Elisa; Roventini, Andrea; … - 2021
different configurations of the patent system upon innovation and competition. The model is able to replicate the main stylized … adverse effects in terms of innovation outcomes, as well as of market competition and consumer welfare. Such general …
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Improving Regulation for Innovation : Evidence from China's Pharmaceutical Industry
Jia, Ruixue; Ma, Xiao; Yang, Jianan; Zhang, Yiran - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates how enhanced regulation can promote innovation, focusing on the impacts of a significant … recognized the improvement in drug innovation, as reflected in stock price adjustments post new drug registrations after the … latecomers could boost their innovation potential by adopting specific, effective regulatory practices from frontier countries …
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Pharmaceutical research strategies
Phlippen, Sandra; Vermeersch, An - 2008
This study analyses 1400 research projects of the top 20 R&D-spending pharmaceuticals to identify the determinants of successful research projects. We provide clear evidence that externally sourced projects and projects involving biotechnologies perform better than internal projects and chemical...
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The impact of R&D cooperations on drug variety offered on the market : evidence from the pharmaceutical industry
Banerjee, Tannista; Siebert, Ralph - 2014
Our study puts special attention to the fact that R&D cooperations in the pharmaceutical industry are formed at different stages throughout the drug development process. We study if the timing to engage in R&D cooperations in the pharmaceutical industry has different impacts on the technology...
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Mapping Markush
Wagner, Stefan; Sternitzke, Christian; Walter, Sascha G. - 2022
the functioning of the patent system, innovation researchers have been surprisingly silent on the topic. This paper …
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