US Pharma's Business Model
INNOVATION-FUELLED, SUSTAINABLE, INCLUSIVE GROWTH Working Paper US Pharma’s Business Model: Why It Is Broken, and How It Can Be Fixed William Lazonick Matt Hopkins Ken Jacobson Mustafa Erdem Sakinç Öner Tulum The Academic-Industry Research Network 13/2017 May This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation action under grant agreement No 649186 US Pharma’s Business Model: Why It Is Broken, and How It Can Be Fixed William Lazonick Matt Hopkins Ken Jacobson Mustafa Erdem Sakinç Öner Tulum The Academic-Industry Research Network (www.theAIRnet.org) Revised, May 22, 2017 Chapter for inclusion in David Tyfield, Rebecca Lave, Samuel Randalls, and Charles Thorpe, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science The contents of this chapter are drawn from two contributions by the Academic- Industry Research Network to the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines: http://www.unsgaccessmeds.org/list-of-contribution/ William Lazonick is Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Visiting Professor, University of Ljubljana; Professeur Associé, Institut Mines- Télécom; and President, The Academic-Industry Research Network (theAIRnet); Matt Hopkins, Ken Jacobson, Mustafa Erdem Sakinç, and Öner Tulum are researchers at theAIRnet. Jacobson is also theAIRnet communications director. Sakinç has just completed a PhD in economics at the University of Bordeaux. Tulum is a PhD student at the University of Ljubljana. Funding for this research came from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (Collective and Cumulative Careers project), the European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No.
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