This paper aims to demonstrate that any suggestion that there is a need for specific innovation laws is flawed …. Innovation is central to good medical practice and is adequately supported by current law. Methods: The paper reviews the nature … of medical innovation and outlines recent attempts in the UK to introduce specific laws aimed at encouraging’ and …

Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of "innovating-by-doing," whereby ideas come … to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners' ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model ….S. Medicare program on medical equipment innovation. Our model’s structure allows us to infer the Medicare program's aggregate …

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 …

health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions include a set of … health spending has a significant and mild effect on health outcomes, even after controlling for medical innovation. However …

health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions includes a set of … health spending has a significant and mild effect on health out-comes, even after controlling for medical innovation. However …