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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 - Okonomische Analyse Des Rechts Frank Muller-Langer 2009 edition
Creating R&D Incentives for Medicines for Neglected Diseases: An Economic Analysis of Parallel Imports, Patents, and Alternative Mechanisms to Stimulate Pharmaceutical Research - Okonomische Analyse Des Rechts
Frank Muller-Langer
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.
297 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white tables, biography
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 28, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9783834917300 |
| Publishers | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden |
| Pages | 297 |
| Dimensions | 148 × 210 × 17 mm · 381 g |
| Language | German |