Another interesting paper I saw presented (by Marc Cohen) was a joint paper of Cohen, Walsh and Cho entitled View from the Bench: Patents, licensing and upstream biomedical innovation.

Summary:

Patents aren’t having much impact in terms of holdup on R&D activity (at least where you don’t need access to the physical material) Primarily because [...]

Caught an interesting presentation at DRUID by Scott Stern of an interesting paper he’s been working on with Fiona Murray entitled: Does Formal Intellectual Property Impact The Market For Scientific Collaboration? Evicence From Patent-Paper Pairs.

Take-away: 1 in 9 research projects considered is not taken forward because of patent issues (remember this doesn’t mean a [...]