Drug Regulation and Incentives for Innovation: The Case of ASEAN

Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin

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Abstract: The focus of this paper is to examine the ways in which regulatory framework affect the pharmaeutical innovations in developing countries using member countries of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) as case study. The paper employs a wide angle view of drug regulation in the region whose members possess varying levels of research and development capacities, supplemented by a zoomed view using data from Thailand where more detailed data are available to author. Data collection relied mainly on review of documents from various sources. Interviews and personal communication were carried out for added information and deeper understanding.

Keywords: data collection; pahrmaceutical innovations; developing countries; thailand; interviews; personal communications; risk management; drug regulation; research; ASEAN; south east; asia; nations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-10
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