An alternative to pharmaceutical patents
Posted by Graeme in Economics at 7:14 am on Monday, 30 April 2012
I have thought about this before, but a question my nine year old daughter asked me crystallised the idea. The (already existing) regulatory process can be tweaked to provide an alternative to patents that would make the market more competitive, reduce over-head costs of research, and reduce litigation costs and uncertainties. (more…)
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God, suffering and science fiction
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