{"title":"Current Perspectives and Challenges in the Pharmaceutical, Life Science and Health Care Sectors","authors":"Natalia Haraszkiewicz-Birkemeier","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3427037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3427037","url":null,"abstract":"The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most innovative sectors in the world. In 2014, the global drug sales market exceeded one trillion dollars for the first time. Innovative, patented drugs represent the largest part of pharmaceutical sales revenues. Nowadays partnerships, licensing and M&A are important parts of R&D strategies to use assets in the most efficient way and accelerate translation of biomedical innovations to bring novel products, services and solutions to the market for patients who need them.","PeriodicalId":191980,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Food & Drug Law & Policy (Sub-Topic)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123900025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Road Untaken: What Makes Entrepreneurs Promote Breakthrough Innovation?","authors":"Yujin Kim","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3161869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3161869","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the strategic conditions that drive entrepreneurial innovators to pursue novel innovation rather than innovation that is closer to existing technologies. To an increasing extent, startups commercialize innovation in a cooperative setup. Because radical breakthrough innovation is more difficult to communicate than its incremental counterpart, entrepreneurial innovators may avoid breakthrough innovation for which the cost of developing credible information is exceedingly high. In the context of the Orphan Drug Act (ODA), this study uses a difference-in-difference approach to measure whether entrepreneurs are more likely to bring novel innovations to the market when the policy change unexpectedly lowers the cost of obtaining information that will convince investors through a small market test. Using a new measure of the novelty of innovation and a detailed panel dataset of therapeutic molecules, this empirical study finds that biotech startups bring more breakthrough drugs to markets affected by ODA. This research also finds that in ODA-affected areas, entrepreneurs are more likely to make partnerships with pharmaceutical partners, but the timing of the partnership is delayed to the advanced development stage for startups to create credible evidence of novel drugs. Taken together, the results of this study suggest that the cost of convincing investors prevents entrepreneurs from marketing novel innovation and that a public policy can moderate inefficiency in the “market for ideas” by decreasing the information friction.","PeriodicalId":191980,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Food & Drug Law & Policy (Sub-Topic)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116801116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antitrust Scrutiny of Excessive Prices in the Pharmaceutical Sector: A Comparative Study of the Italian and UK Experiences","authors":"M. Colangelo, C. Desogus","doi":"10.54648/woco2018012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54648/woco2018012","url":null,"abstract":"Excessive pricing has generally been seen as a problem to be addressed through sector-specific regulation rather than through antitrust intervention. Literature on the issue is divided between scholars calling for an interventionist approach and those supporting a non-interventionist approach on the basis of conflicting rationales. However, recent cases have called attention to the imposition of excessive prices in the pharmaceutical sector. The Aspen and the Flynn cases, in particular, constitute emblematic examples of such practice in the field of off-patent drugs. The analysis of the investigations conducted by national competition authorities in these cases provides some important insights into the controversial issues of ascertaining when antitrust intervention can be considered justified and of determining which methodology may be properly adopted in order to assess whether a drug price is unfairly high.","PeriodicalId":191980,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Food & Drug Law & Policy (Sub-Topic)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116607972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing Novel Drugs","authors":"Joshua L. Krieger, Danielle Li, D. Papanikolaou","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3095246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3095246","url":null,"abstract":"We analyze the economic tradeoffs associated with firms' decisions to invest in incremental and radical innovation, in the context of pharmaceutical research and development. We develop a new, ex ante, measure of a drug candidate's innovativeness by comparing its chemical structure to that of previously developed drug candidates: this allows us to better distinguish between novel and so-called “me-too” drugs. We show that, on average, novel drug candidates 1) generate higher private and social returns conditional on approval (as measured by revenues, stock market returns, clinical value added, and patent citations) but 2) are riskier in that they are less likely to be approved by the FDA. Using variation in the expansion of Medicare prescription drug coverage, we show that firms respond to a plausibly exogenous positive shock to their net worth by developing more chemically novel drug candidates, as opposed to more “me-too” drugs. This pattern suggests that, on the margin, firms perceive novel drugs to be more valuable ex-ante investments, but that financial frictions may hinder their willingness to invest in these riskier candidates.","PeriodicalId":191980,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Food & Drug Law & Policy (Sub-Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116202845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Cooperation is a Better Strategy to Achieve Competitive Advantage in Immuno-Oncology for Pharma Rivals Pfizer and Merck KGaA - Analyzing the Companies' Benefits","authors":"Evgeniia Popova","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3061160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3061160","url":null,"abstract":"Biotech revolution changed the pharmaceutical industry, triggering a wave of risky collaborations between rivals. Based on the research findings, we answer the question why cooperation in the field of immuno-oncology is a better strategy for Pfizer and Merck KGaA, which aim to achieve competitive advantage quickly and with minimum effort. Combining their assets and core expertise companies realize benefits of greater size and variety in the conduct of research, development and commercializing of their new breakthrough therapy for cancer treatment.","PeriodicalId":191980,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Food & Drug Law & Policy (Sub-Topic)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122603872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Food Security, FTA and Trade Protectionism in Asian Countries","authors":"Aruna Kumar Nishanka","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2864395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2864395","url":null,"abstract":"Food security is the broad area of the food for the forth coming generation. Asia’s famous economic rise as the “global factory” over several decades was facilitated by outward-oriented development strategies and a multilateral approach, based initially on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and then its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). Free trade agreements (FTAs), as trade-policy instruments in Asia, were largely absent in the region’s trade policy architecture during Asia’s economic rise. \u0000 \u0000Four main factors underlie the recent spread of FTA initiatives in Asia: \u0000 \u0000(1) deepening market- driven economic integration in Asia, \u0000 \u0000(2) European and North American economic integration, \u0000 \u0000(3) the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis, and \u0000 \u0000(4) slow progress in the WTO Doha negotiations. \u0000 \u0000Food security is mixed blessing because it is providing substitute domestic industrial and agricultural production and made a country more efficient for the production of particular product in international production for trade disruption and co-ordination failure.","PeriodicalId":191980,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Food & Drug Law & Policy (Sub-Topic)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130356583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Food Safety and Sustainable Development","authors":"P. Krajewski","doi":"10.6027/9789289337267-4-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6027/9789289337267-4-en","url":null,"abstract":"Genetic engineering is most often (and apparently rightly) associated with modern agriculture and food production. But besides the real and potential advantages derived from manipulating genes of living organisms, related threats should also be noted. Food and food production provides the basis for the existence and functioning of our civilisation. Tools used by man to sustain his existence affect the environmental conditions which, in turn, determine the production capacities and availability of natural resource diversity. Therefore, human life depends on it. Their careful use will ensure development, while a lack of prudence or control over undertaken actions may have serious economic and ecological consequences.","PeriodicalId":191980,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Food & Drug Law & Policy (Sub-Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128263715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"As You Sow, so Shall You Reap: Evidence of Innovation and Drug Portfolio Diversification from the Stock Market","authors":"Anushri Bansal","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1605127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1605127","url":null,"abstract":"Drug discovery and development is a risky and time-consuming process. Typically, a new product costs around $1.3 billion and takes 15–20 years to reach the shelves, while an overwhelming majority of innovations fail along the way. The probability of attaining a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a compound that has attained a patent grant is a mere 0.02 per cent. However, the pharmaceutical industry’s sustainability and profitability is dependant on product discovery and innovation. Against such a background, this article looks at returns to innovation for 66 companies in the biopharmaceutical industry. Based on Original New Drug Approvals (NDA) by the FDA from 1997–2007 and patent grants from 1984–2005, this study assesses market rewards for bringing new drugs to the market and undertaking risks by diversifying product portfolios. Using an event-study analysis, this article makes two conclusions. First, FDA drug approval receives a positive and longlasting response from the stock market. Second, FDA policies alongside factors such as R&D expenditure, drug type and reputation of the company based on previous drug approvals, play an instrumental role in encouraging pharmaceutical companies to innovate, by reducing the interval between a patent grant and FDA approval. Finally, the market offers sizable rewards for undertaking the risk of product diversification and also rewards frequent participants.","PeriodicalId":191980,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Food & Drug Law & Policy (Sub-Topic)","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114923213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulatory Beneficiaries and Informal Agency Policy Making","authors":"Nina A. Mendelson","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.881137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.881137","url":null,"abstract":"Administrative agencies frequently use guidance documents to set policy broadly and prospectively in areas ranging from Department of Education Title IX enforcement to Food and Drug Administration regulation of direct-to- consumer pharmaceutical advertising. In form, these guidances often closely resemble the policies agencies issue in ordinary notice-and-comment rulemaking. However, guidances are generally developed with little public participation and are often immune from judicial review. Nonetheless, guidances can prompt significant changes in behavior from those the agencies regulate. A number of commentators have guardedly defended the current state of affairs. Though guidances lack some important procedural safeguards, they can help agencies supervise low-level employees and supply valuable information to regulated entities regarding how an agency will implement a program. Thus far, however, the debate has largely ignored the distinct and substantial interests of regulatory beneficiaries--those who expect to benefit from government regulation of others. Regulatory beneficiaries include, among others, pharmaceutical consumers, environmental users, and workers seeking safe workplaces. When agencies make policy informally, regulatory beneficiaries suffer distinctive losses to their ability to participate in the agency's decision and to invoke judicial review. This Article argues that considering the interests of regulatory beneficiaries strengthens the case for procedural reform. The Article then assesses some possible solutions.","PeriodicalId":191980,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Innovation & Food & Drug Law & Policy (Sub-Topic)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129946934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}