Discover the newsletter of the RNI: Infonews November 2011

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Summer school 2012: “The new dimensions of sectoral systems of innovation“, from August, 29th to September, 1st 2012 in Montpellier (Call for papers, no later than May 15th 2012)

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Springer Encyclopedia on Creativity, invention, innovation and entrepreneurship (CI2E) - Entrepreneurship volume - Website

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FORUM INNOVATION V - The new industrial alliance

April, 5^th, 2012 - Maison de l’Europe - Paris

Call for papers (deadline: February, 7th 2012) :  Call Forum V

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UPCOMING SEMINARS

Next Seminar: January,9th

Place: ISEG, Paris
28 rue des francs-bourgeois - 75 003 Paris

Topic 1 : Law on corporation
Sophie Boutillier (Lab RII, RRI) & Claude Fournier (RRI)

Topic 2 : The development of the TIC in local authorities
Amel Attour (Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine / Ecole des Mines de Nancy)

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March, 12^th, 2012

Topic 1 : The European patent (Alfredo Ilardi & Blandine Laperche)
Topic 2 : Competitive intelligence (Jean Louis Monino)

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May, 7^th, 2012

Topic 1 : The dividends of innovation (Marian Wielezinski)
Topic 2 : Food and innovation (Delphine Gallaud)

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June, 4^th, 2012

The RNI’s Study Day: INNOVATION 2012
Facebook Event Page (forthcoming…)
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Just published

The economic potential of the Subsaharien Africa (in french : “Le potentiel économique de l’Afrique Subsaharienne“)

Emmanuel Moussone, Gabriel Zomo Yebe (dir)

Marché et Organisations n°14
L’Harmattan, 2011

 

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Title: Journal of Innovation Economics (JIE)
Language: English
Disciplines: Economics, management, sociology of organizations
2 issues per year
JIE is linked to Innovations, Cahiers d’Economie de l’Innovation supported by laboratoire de Recherche sur l’Industrie et l’Innovation (Lab.RII)
JIE is co-edited by the Research Network on Innovation and by De Boeck Université. It is is downloadable on Cairn.

Issue N°8, 2011/2 : Environment, innovation and sustainable development

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Publication of the issue n°36 of Innovations, cahiers d’économie de l’innovation, 2011/3

“Research and Economy”

 

 

 

Call for paper (in French) : L’économie du luxe : entre créativité et innovation

 

 

Drugs patentability and technological innovation in developing countries: the mixed results of the TRIPS agreements

By Nejla YACOUB (Lab.RII – ULCO)

 

Today 17 years have gone since the signature in 1994 of the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreements (TRIPS) in the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The controversies they arise as regards their consequences on the developing countries remain still topical, though. Extending the patentability to pharmaceuticals is one of the major factors that revived these controversies. In addition to its economic dimension, the question has worn a social dimension. This explains the multiplying number of scientific papers dealing with the accessibility of medium and low revenue populations to patented drugs. However, the issue of patentability is much less explored as regards its impacts on the pharmaceutical innovation in developing countries.

The theoretical developments reveal ambivalent relationships between patentability and innovation. While the theoretical arguments based on the knowledge market failures - and therefore those of the pharmaceutical invention market- (non-rivalry, uncertainty, high research and development costs, etc.) justify the drugs patentability in developing countries as an incentive to innovate, the empirical evidence shows mixed results according to countries. This is explained by the fact that innovation is a complicated process which requires the combination of several factors (financial, human, technical, informational … resources) and the contribution of several actors of different nature (institutional, human, etc.) and at different phases (the financing, the research, the production, etc.). The impact of the patentability, which is perceived on the endogenous innovation (via the internal resources) as well as on the exogenous innovation (via the technology transfers), is difficult -even impossible- to isolate; it depends largely and more on the “quality” of the sectoral national innovation system (SNIS).

Without claiming their homogeneity, the SNIS in developing countries are globally, still at primary stages of development; same for the pharmaceutical innovation which appears embryonic and even absent in some countries. In such a situation, the impact of patentability is perceived at two scales. On the one hand, in the absence of the required determinants (financial, scientific, infrastructural … resources) so that innovation could be conducted, the incentive to innovate procured by patentability seems to be of minor interest. On the other hand, since pharmaceutical innovation in developing countries is often conducted through the imitation of technologies from developed countries, drugs patentability increases their (technologies) costs and hence limits their diffusion in developing countries; in this case, drugs patentability generates a negative impact on pharmaceutical innovation in developing countries.

The experience of the occidental pharmaceutical industries, themselves developed through imitation until the middle of the twentieth century, confirms that drugs patentability is an incentive for innovation only when the industry transforms from a “net imitator” into a “net innovator”. Thus, the TRIPS agreements seem to have imposed to developing countries a “premature” reform at this stage of development of their local pharmaceutical industries. If on the short run drugs patentability relative to the TRIPS appears rather as an obstacle to pharmaceutical innovation in developing countries, on the long run, its impact depends on the ability of these countries to put into effect alternative mechanisms to imitation which could facilitate their accessibility to new foreign technologies. One major mechanism in this framework would stem from the creation of attractiveness dynamics towards “innovation seeking” pharmaceutical foreign investments.

 

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