Economics of Innovation

Optimal innovation balances willingness and ability to pay with the benefits of future R&D. Our wide-ranging programme aims to promote innovation in health care, increase our understanding of its value, and encourage R&D. New models of innovation should streamline development, reduce costs, and speed patient benefit.

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An Insurance Framework for Funding New Antibiotics

22 September 2017

A new paper sets out an insurance model as part of a global solution to incentivise R&D for new antibiotics to tackle multi-drug resistance. It offers…

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OHE at iHEA 2017: Presentations

8 August 2017

The presentations delivered by OHE at the iHEA congress, July 2017, are available in this post.

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OHE Lunchtime Seminar: How Cost-Effective are New Cancer Drugs in the U.S.?

2 August 2017

On Tuesday 19th September 2017, Professor Frank Lichtenberg from Columbia University will lead an OHE Lunchtime Seminar on the topic of: How cost-effective are new cancer…

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OHE at HTAi Rome

12 July 2017

The presentations delivered by OHE at the HTAi Annual Meeting, June 2017, are available in this post.

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Postdoctoral Position in The Economics of Life Sciences R&D

27 June 2017

The Structural Genomics Consortium Oxford, University of Oxford, in collaboration with OHE (Prof Adrian Towse) and Dr Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz, is recruiting for a Postdoctoral Position in…

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Professor Dame Sally Davies: Ten Years of the NIHR: Achievements and Challenges for the Next Decade

15 June 2017

In November 2016 Professor Dame Sally Davies delivered the 23rd OHE Annual Lecture on the topic of: Ten Years of the NIHR: Achievements and Challenges for…

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Assessing the Value of New Antibiotics: Additional Elements of Value for Health Technology Assessment Decisions

30 May 2017

Without new antibiotics, more patients will die from previously treatable infections. A key issue is how the value of antibiotics can be appropriately assessed by payers…

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New Publication: ‘Macro’ Evaluation of the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

22 May 2017

OHE and RAND Europe were commissioned by the Oxford BRC to undertake a programme of top-down evaluations of aspects of the impact of the BRC. This…

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Incentives for New Drugs and Vaccines to Tackle Anti-Microbial Resistance

16 May 2017

Resistance to antibiotics is growing. Additional R&D is required. Both Transferable Intellectual Property Rights and Market Entry Rewards should be explored for use in Europe as…