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Effects on R&D
Date: 14 August 2007
The Madras High Court ruling against Novartis on August 6 points out the long-term effects this decision will have on research and development for the pharma industry in India...
 Private Equity News
The EU is wrong to deter private equity investment
Date: 30 July 2007
The bill to liberalise Europe’s energy networks, expected to be passed later this year by a large majority in the European Parliament, is aimed at addressing high energy prices caused in part by the lack of competition in the markets. French utility Gaz de France and German conglomerate RWE will be forced to sell their transmission infrastructure, and entrants will be given fair access to the grid.
Allowing national regulators to set minimum investment requirements to score petty political points against private equity will undermine the achievement of the best prices and services and endanger that security of supply. Europe must rethink its assumptions about the ownership of utilities and other natural monopolies or risk merely exchanging one form of protectionism - against cross-border ownership - with another - against private equity. Managing Intellectual Property
Gowers Review Submissions Analyzed
Date: 30 July 2007
A statistical analysis of evidence submitted to last year's Gowers Review of intellectual property in the UK has found that the Review's recommendations are largely aligned with the submissions received.
But only 6.7% of the submissions provided significant statistical data, according to the analysis conducted by Simon Moore of the Stockholm Network. The Gowers Review received some 500 responses to the call for evidence. More than 250 of these were from organisations and these form the basis of the Stockholm Network study. The study also found that only six submissions could be categorised as anti-IP, five of these concentrating on DRM and open-source software. Fair dealing and exceptions to IP rights were the most discussed topics. http://www.managingip.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1397854&Title=Gowers%20Review%20submissions%20analyzed Health Care News
Evidence-Based Medicine Neglects Individual Needs
Date: 26 July 2007
The movement called rational use of medicine (RUM) is about controlling both drug formularies and information.
RUM encompasses various expressions used to define and promote three interrelated notions which are not entirely synonymous but which have a common objective: reducing the role of medicines. It is based on a belief in the relative ineffectiveness of drug innovation, prescription abuse, and general unsustainability of the cost of medicines in developed and developing countries alike. The Times
Reducing our carbon footprints
Date: 25 July 2007
Reducing our carbon footprints
Sir, "Voluntary" offsetting measures ("Compulsory green levy plan would counter impact of worst polluters", July 23 ) are an inefficient and expensive means of reducing carbon emissions. Regulating emissions on a sector-by-sector basis will lead to costly administrative arrangements, and, more significantly, will add unnecessary costs to the important business of emissions reduction. A well-implemented carbon trading scheme, with a market-driven price for carbon, enables cuts to be routed to the easiest and cheapest carbon to remove from the system. Locating these opportunities is something companies, not governments, are best placed to do. SIMON MOORE, Research Officer, |
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