E-DRUG: Make Drugs Affordable - replace TRIPs-plus by R&D-plus
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[The June 2004 issue of BRIDGES contains an interesting article to change the failing trade agreements (which do not lead to transfer of technology or useful innovation) by new paradigm. See www.ictsd.org WB]
http://www.ictsd.org/monthly/bridges/BRIDGES8-6.pdf
Make Drugs Affordable: Replace TRIPs-plus by R&D-plus
James Love and Tim Hubbard
The global trade framework for financing new medical technologies is in
trouble. It will and should change. If we want innovation, fairness and
efficiency, we will need innovation in the trade framework.
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
http://www.cptech.org, mailto:james.love@cptech.org
tel. +1.202.387.8030, mobile +1.202.361.3040
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