Goldman, Dana; Lakdawalla, Darius - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 825-872). 2011
Intellectual property rights are viewed as essential to medical innovation, but very often involve social costs due to … patent monopolies and other inefficiencies. We review the positive theory of innovation in health care, as it relates to the … determination of innovation demand and supply. The positive theory is related to a host of competing normative models of …