| Titre | Productivité de la recherche et rendements d'échelle dans le secteur pharmaceutique français | |
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| Auteur | Frédéric Rupprecht, Nicolas Iung | |
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Revue | Economie et prévision |
| Numéro | no 135, 1998/4 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | L'empirique en économie industrielle |
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| Page | 121-136 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Research Productivity and Returns to Scale in the French Pharmaceutical Sector by Nicolas lung and Frederic Rupprecht
This paper studies research productivity in French pharmaceutical laboratories. We measure the elasticities of the number of new products launched and the sales made by these products to the size of the laboratory launching them. Our study suggests that the development of new pharmaceutical products is subject to constant or decreasing returns and economies of scope. These economies could make it profitable for firms working in separate therapeutic fields to merge.
Constant or decreasing returns also prevail in the discovery of blockbusters, but without economies of scope. However, this type of pharmaceutical product might be expected to show increasing returns due to the greater impact of researcher specialisation and the fixed costs associated with purchasing sophisticated equipment. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ecop_0249-4744_1998_num_135_4_5929 |
