기사
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND THE PATENT SYSTEM /
- 개인저자
- Love, James
- 수록페이지
- 257-264 p.
- 발행일자
- 2005.04.25
- 출판사
- Baywood Publishing Company
초록
[영문]The pharmaceutical industry routinely exaggerates its expenditures on research and development, but it does spend billions annually. But not all Rqqqamp;D is equally important. The patent-based system provides incentives to invest heavily in marketing and marketing-related measures masquerading as research. Innovators are rewarded with a marketing monopoly, and this drives what kind of research they do and what practices they follow to profit from their products. It is a system that creates incentives for marketing more than for research, which inevitably drives the marketing mission to corrupt the Rqqqamp;D process.