Innovation in Data Visualisation for Public Policy Making

Crowdsourcing Public Policy Innovation

Governments in developing countries usually fail to generate innovative solutions to public policy issues or they are not even conscious of the high potential they have if they could open their problems for innovative solutions. Innovation at the public level is limited because of organizational and cultural reasons, mainly because government officials do not have the right incentives to do so....

Public Policy and Pharmaceutical Innovation

Historically, new drug introductions have played a central role in medical progress and the availability of cost-effective therapies. Nevertheless, public policy toward pharmaceuticals has been characterized in recent times by increasingly stringent regulatory controls, shorter effective patent terms, and increased encouragement of generic product usage. This has had an adverse effect on the in...

Public Procurement for Innovation (PPI) as Mission-oriented Innovation Policy

New Data for Innovation Policy

We contend that existing datasets based on survey or administrative data queried via standard industrial and occupational standards are ill suited for the purposes of innovation policy, and therefore, of its ability to attain its goals to address market, system and emergence failures preventing new ideas from being applied. These datasets are constrained in their ability to identify novel secto...

Making Do in Making Drugs: Innovation Policy and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Despite increasing recalls, contamination events, and shortages, drug companies continue to rely on outdated manufacturing plants and processes. Drug manufacturing’s inefficiency and lack of innovation stand in stark contrast to drug discovery, which is the focus of a calibrated innovation policy that combines patents and FDA regulation. Pharmaceutical manufacturing lags far behind the innovati...