Abstract
Implementing mechanisms for rewarding those who introduce innovative medicinal products requires a definition of 'rewardable innovation'. Here, we propose a definition of innovation with respect to medicinal products, accompanied by a ranking of the importance of different types of innovativeness, with the aim of providing a basis for rewarding such innovation.
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J.K.A. is President Emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society, and a member of the Technology Appraisal Committee of the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). R.E.F. is an NHS member of the NICE Appeal Panel. D.A.H. is a member of the Welsh Medicines Partnership. However, the opinions expressed here are not necessarily shared by other members of those organizations or the organizations themselves.
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Supplementary table 1
Features relevant to a definition of rewardable innovation and their inclusion in previous definitions (PDF 159 kb)
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The usefulness of therapeutic innovations from different perspectives (PDF 123 kb)
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Innovative features of a selection of beta-blockers (PDF 132 kb)
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Varieties of innovativeness ranked by degree (adapted from reference 1) (PDF 149 kb)
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Aronson, J., Ferner, R. & Hughes, D. Defining rewardable innovation in drug therapy. Nat Rev Drug Discov 11, 253–254 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd3715
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