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Creating R&D Incentives for Medicines for Neglected Diseases: An Economic Analysis of Parallel Imports, Patents, and Alternative Mechanisms to Stimulate Pharmaceutical Research

By Frank Müller-Langer (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Gabler Verlag
Year
2009
ISBN
978-3-8349-1730-0, 978-3-8349-8323-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-8349-8323-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1167817 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
297\311
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Technology Management

Description

Virtually no research is targeted at developing medicines for tropical diseases as the expected market returns from R&D into these diseases in the private pharmaceuticals sector are too low. Frank Müller-Langer addresses the market failure with respect to R&D for medicines for tropical diseases and the lack of short-term access to affordable medicines in poor countries. The author analyzes additional push and pull mechanisms to stimulate R&D for pharmaceutical products alongside patent protection which may help mitigate the problem of those consumers in poor countries who lack access to affordable medicines. Furthermore, he reasons that a global regime of banning parallel trade from low-income countries to high-income countries is desirable from a developing country’s perspective.

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