1st Edition
Economics of the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry Supply Chain, Trade and Innovation
1.Global pharmaceutical and medical device industry: Key milestones, global trading environment and key challenges
2.Evolving Product and Market Structure of the Pharmaceuticals and the Medical Device Industry
3.Trade in health products and trade interdependence
4. The innovation challenge and cross-country comparison of innovation capabilities
5. Tackling the grand challenge of productivity slowdown: New innovation strategies and the power of frontier technologies
6. Controlling neglected tropical diseases and containing the growing risks of pandemics
7. The pharmaceutical industry-environmental footprint challenge
8. Role of China and India in the emerging global supply chain: Prospects and challenges
9. Strengthening the medical sector: Concluding remarks
10. Glossary and definition of terms used
11. Appendix
Biography
Ramesh Bhardwaj is a professor of Business Economics at George Brown College, Toronto, Canada. He has written two books in Health Economics: Determinants of Mental Health: A Socioeconomic Perspective and Protecting Cancer Patients: Controlling Risk Factors, Restraining Cost of Drugs and Preventing Financial Catastrophe.
