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Sources of biopharmaceutical innovation: An assessment of intellectual property

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  • Michael S. Kinch

    (Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA.)

  • Julio Raffo

    (Economics and Statistics Division, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.)

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An analysis of FDA-approved new molecular entities reveals dynamism in terms of new innovation. An assessment of the first patent for each drug reveals that the pharmaceutical industry, particularly large, established companies in North America, tend to dominate the field. Over the past 10-15 years, European and Asian organizations have begun to close the gap. A dynamic inventive environment in drug discovery is suggested by the fact that NMEs for biologics or awarded to biotechnology companies often have inventors from the pharmaceutical and academic sectors. Whereas inventors continue to found biotechnology companies at a steady rate, recent trends suggest these inventors more often come from the private sector.

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  • Michael S. Kinch & Julio Raffo, 2015. "Sources of biopharmaceutical innovation: An assessment of intellectual property," WIPO Economic Research Working Papers 24, World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division.
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    1. Eugene Russo, 2003. "Special Report: The birth of biotechnology," Nature, Nature, vol. 421(6921), pages 456-457, January.
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    1. Fernando Gascón & Jesús Lozano & Borja Ponte & David Fuente, 2017. "Measuring the efficiency of large pharmaceutical companies: an industry analysis," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 18(5), pages 587-608, June.

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