Medical technologies
John Edwards calls for prizes to replace monopolies as innovation incentive for new drugs
Written by James Love
Friday, 15 June 2007
Friday, 15 June 2007
John Edwards, a leading candidate for the democratic nomination for president of the United States, has issued a statement endorsing prizes as an "alternative to patent monopolies" for new drugs and other inventions. This was from the Edwards campaign press release:
Edwards Details Cost-Savings Measures In Universal Health Care Plan, Jun 14, 2007
The Big Idea: Prizes to Stimulate R&D for New Medicines
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Volume 82, Number 3
2007
Previously KEI Research Paper 2007:1, Revised 26 March 2007. Originally the Ruby Hutchison
Memorial Address, Presented November 14, 2006
James Love, Knowledge Ecology International
Tim Hubbard, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
The paper is available in PDF format here: http://lawreview.kentlaw.edu/articles/82-3/Love
News reports and blogs on innovation prizes
Return to KEI page on prizes to stimulate innovation
A separate page on academic and other technical papers and comments on prizes is available here:
News Reports and Blogs on Innovation Prizes
Scholarly and Technical Articles and Books on Innovation Prizes
An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarly and Technical Articles and Books on Innovation Prizes
KEI Research Note 2008:2
(Updated October 4, 2010)
KEI Research Note 2008:2
(Updated October 4, 2010)
2010. William Fisher and Talha Syed. Drugs, Law, and the Health Crisis in the Developing World. Stanford University Press. [link]
Chapter 10 of this book is on prizes, and is available online.
Prominent Innovation Prizes And Reward Programs
PROMINENT INNOVATION PRIZES AND REWARD PROGRAMS
KEI Research Note 2007:1
Benjamin Krohmal*
March 1, 2007
Surveys of Prizes for Innovation
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
March 7, 2008. Selected Innovation Prizes and Reward Programs, KEI Research Note 2008:1
March 1, 2007. Benjamin Krohmal. Prominent Innovation Prizes and Reward Programs, KEI Research Note 2007:1. (The more recent and greatly expanded version of this is KEI Research Note 2008:1).
KEI issues report on Selected Innovation Prizes and Reward Programs
Written by James Love
Thursday, 20 March 2008
Thursday, 20 March 2008
On March 20, 2008, KEI published "Selected Innovation Prizes and Reward Programs" (cite as KEI Research Note 2008:1). The paper, which is available on the Internet here: http://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/research_notes/kei_rn_2008_1.pdf, provides the most comprehensive account of historical uses of prizes to induce innovation now available. The introduction to the 51 page report follows:
The role of prizes in stimulating R&D
Written by James Love
Saturday, 20 October 2007
Saturday, 20 October 2007
KEI Comment to the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights
James Love, Knowledge Ecology International
30 September 2007
Introduction
The role of prizes in stimulating R&D
Written by James Love
Saturday, 20 October 2007
Saturday, 20 October 2007
KEI Comment to the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights
James Love, Knowledge Ecology International
30 September 2007
Introduction
