[Ip-health] Maastricht Workshop on Medical innovation prizes as a mechanism to promote innovation and access, Jan 28-29, 2007

[Malini Aisola]

The following is the current agenda for a workshop in Maastricht, the
Netherlands, on January 28-29, 2007, on the topic of medical innovation
prizes.  The workshop is being organized by UNU-MERIT and KEI.


Malini

Knowledge Ecology International
1621 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA
Tel.:  +1.202.332.2670 Fax: +1.202.332.2673

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Workshop on Medical innovation prizes as a mechanism to promote
innovation and access

January 28-29, 2008
United Nations University (UNU) - Maastricht Economic and social
Research and training center on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), and
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
Maastricht, the Netherlands
(Draft agenda,  17 Dec 2008)

Monday, Jan 28

Welcome

Konrad Osterwalder, Rector, United Nations University
James Love, KEI

Panel 1  Overview, prizes to stimulate innovation

Chair:  Luc Soete, UNU-MERIT

William Fisher, Harvard Law School, prizes for medical innovation
Steve Merrill, NAS, innovation prizes in other fields
Thomas C. Erren, Institute and Policlinic for Occupational and Social
Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Cologne,
Lindenthal, Germany

Break

Panel 2  Prizes, the U.S. and European Context

Chair:  Surie Moon, Harvard, KSG

Dwayne Spradlin, CEO, Innocentive, Prizes for Research tools and Basic
Medical Research
Nicole Szlezak, Chief Scientific Officer, Prize for Life
David Reynolds, Senator Sanders Office, S.2210, the Medical Innovation
Prize
Joan Rovira, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain


Lunch

Panel 3  Prizes for developing countries

Chair: Thiru Balasubramaniam, KEI

Pierre Chirac, MSF, prize for TB low-cost point of care rapid diagnostic
test
Aidan Hollis, University of Calgary, a voluntary prize mechanism

Break

Panel 4  Issues in Prize Design

Chair: Roxanna Bonnell, OSI

John Erickson (TBC), CEO Sequoia Pharmaceuticals, a system of prizes
that rewards product development in stages
Sisule Musungu, Yale, Prizes as an alternative to marketing monopolies
as an implementation of TRIPS obligations


Panel 5  Views of Developing Countries

Chair: Spring Gombe, KEI

Dilip Shah, Indian Generics Association
Ahmed Latif, ICTSD
A.E. Ogwell, Kenya Ministry of Health


6:30pm  Moderate/Speakers dinner


Tuesday, Jan 29

Panel 6  - Economists on prizes

Chair: Rishab Ghosh, UNU-MERIT

Foray Dominique (TBC), Ecole Polytechnique F=C3=A9d=C3=A9rale de Lausanne
Ove Grandstrand, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Bart Verspagen, Eindhoven University of Technology

Break

Panel 7   Sustainable financing for prizes

Chair: Ahmed Latif, ICTSD

Michelle Childs, KEI, A prize mechanism for UNITAID/Global Fund
Peter Brown, SecurePharma, possible role of the International Finance
Facility (IFF) in providing credible and sustainable sources of funding
for innovation prizes for neglected diseases
Nicoletta Dentico, DNDi, Transaction based funding mechanisms for public
goods
Speaker(s) TBA, Funding of prizes linked to shares of GDP or health care
budgets

Lunch

Panel 8 - The management of prizes

Chair: Oliver Moldenhauer, MSF

Amy Kapczynski, Berkeley, Legal Issues
Ron Marchant, former Chief Executive of the UK Intellectual Property
Office
Rainer Sauerborn, University of Heidelberg, Germany
James Love, KEI  Issues in valuation of prizes
Kalipso Chalkidou, UK NICE, Valuing Prizes and Reimbursements, how
different?


Break

Panel 9 -  Conclusions and Next Steps

Chair:  Luc Soete, UNU-MERIT

Sisule Musungu, Yale
Ahmed Latif, ICTSD
A.E. Ogwell, Kenya Ministry of Health
Greg Perry, European Generic Medicines Association
Ove Grandstrand, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Rishab Ghosh, UNU-MERIT
James Love, KEI