The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most productive and competitive industries in the world. Many of the large pharmaceutical companies (often termed ‘Big Pharma’) base their primary operations in the USA and maintain extensive facilities in countries around the world. Pharmaceutical research is, therefore, an activity of global importance. The intensely competitive and global nature of B...

The pharmaceutical industry suffers from increasing counterfeit rates. Federal law restrictions force manufacturers to guarantee authenticity of their products. RFID technology can be used as foundation for an integer and counterfeit-resistant pharmaceutical supply chain. In the given paper, we introduce an architecture optimized for storing and searching of RFID data. It is specifically design...

ONGOING DEBATES IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR ABOUT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, PRICING AND REIMBURSEMENT, AND PUBLIC RESEARCH INVESTMENTS HAVE A COMMON DENOMINATOR: the pursuit of innovation. However, there is little clarity about what constitutes a true pharmaceutical innovation, and as a result there is confusion about what kind of new products should be pursued, protected and encouraged through h...