Racing To Invest? The Dynamics of Competition in Ethical Drug Discovery (original) (raw)

Recent advances in the theoretical literature have greatly expanded our understanding of the forces that shape the competitive dynamics of research and development, but a paucity of suffzciently detailed empirical data has left these insights relatively untested. W e draw on unusually detailed qualitative and quantitative infernal data provided at the research program level by 10 major pharmaceutical firms to explore the usefulness of the modern literature as a source of insight into the dynamics of competition in ethical drug discovery.