When firms span related product categories, spillovers across categories become central to firm strategy and industrial policy, due to their potential to foreclose competition and affect innovation incentives. We exploit major new product innovations in one medical device category, and detailed...

Applications of design of experiments to pharmaceutical quality control / Evelin Gutierrez, José A. Rodriguez, Julian Cruz-Borbolla -- Metrology in science : health and technology / Adriana Nava Vega -- High-performance liquid chromatography as quality-control for pharmaceutical and medical...

The public procurement of medical devices is increasingly relying on auction mechanisms to move toward more transparent procedures and to promote competition between suppliers in a market where the quality of the products matters enormously and an improper auction design could be very harmful....