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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Pharmaceutical Industry and Society: a Study of the Changing Environment and Economics of the International Industry

1 July 1972

This paper is based on a symposium held at the Imperial College of Science and Technology by the Office of Health Economics in 1972. Our ancestors…

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Pharmaceuticals Among the Sunrise Industries

1 February 1984

The performance of the United Kingdom economy has been the subject of much critical comment in recent years. Of course, economic achievement can be viewed from…

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Economics and Innovation the Pharmaceutical Industry

1 July 1969

This book contains the third series of Winter Lectures organised by the Office of Health Economics, and the first to be given after the publication of…

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Innovation in Industry: a Factor for Growth

1 July 1969

Over  the  past  few  years  there  has  been  a  growing  concern  with Britain’s record of industrial innovation based upon technology.  This stems from two factors.  Firstly,…

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Medicines in the 1990s: a Technological Forecast

1 July 1969

By 1990, the total cost of the National Health Service will probably have reached about £10,000 million of which about £1,300 million will be for medicines…

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Innovation Balance of Payments: the Experience of the Pharmaceutical Industry

1 July 1967

Symposium held at the Imperial College of Science and Technology by the Office of Health Economics This book is a published version of the second series…

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Pharmaceutical Research: the Case for Growth in Britain

1 July 1967

ONE of the problems in Britain today is that too little of its academic research is associated with successful innovation in industry. The result is that…

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Science, Industry in the State

7 January 1965

Based on a series of six lectures discussing some of the special considerations which arise when a science based industry has the government as a major…

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Finance of Medical Research

7 January 1964

The explosive progress of medical science during the past twenty-five years has brought about a revolution in the health of the community and in the problems…