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

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 disea...

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Main Author: Müller-Langer, Frank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden Gabler Verlag 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
Series:Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XIX, 297 p. 8 illus online resource
ISBN:9783834983237