Economic and legal frameworks of the innovative activity in the field of pharmaceutical industry turnovereconomic and legal frameworks of the innovative activity in the field of pharmaceutical industry turnover Cover Image

Господарсько-правове забезпечення інноваційної діяльності у сфері обігу лікарських засобів
Economic and legal frameworks of the innovative activity in the field of pharmaceutical industry turnovereconomic and legal frameworks of the innovative activity in the field of pharmaceutical industry turnover

Author(s): A. V. Ostanina
Subject(s): Law on Economics
Published by: Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого
Keywords: Innovative activity in the field of pharmaceutical industry turnover; innovative medicine; generic drugs;

Summary/Abstract: The author has researches problems of economic and legal support of the innovative activity in the field of pharmaceutical industry turnover, particularly in the field of industrial production. The article analyzes the current legal sense of a concept «innovative medicine». The author proposes an own legal definition of this concept. The author has considered modern achievements in development and application of innovative medicines and determined the legal status of medical drugs, which had lost a right to patent protection. The author proves that the modern market of pharmaceutical products is a multi-level system. Until recently, figures of production, sales, and profitability in this market grew at a rapid speed. The author has analyzed experience of developed countries, which confirms that structural rebuilding of the post-industrial society economy and the increase of its competitiveness are possible only under conditions of widespread implementation of innovations, i.e. activation of the innovative activity.

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 204-215
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Ukrainian