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Pharmaceutical Innovation in the United States: Factors Affecting Future Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Michael R. Pollard
Michael R. Pollard
Affiliation:
Michaels & Wishner, PC
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Abstract

Fueled by high returns on its investments, the pharmaceutical industry in the United States has flourished for the past 50 years. The regulatory strategy of demanding stringent testing then allowing market-based pricing has allowed private companies to fund ambitious research and development activities with the assurance that these investments will be recovered. However, aggressive managed-care cost-containment strategies threaten the companies' ability to recoup research and development expenses and may affect their willingness to invest in future innovative research.

Type
Special Section: Industry and the Generation of Technology
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , Spring 1993 , pp. 167 - 173
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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