Presentation at Changing Nature of Innovation Conference, May 2021, Ahmedabad University & CTIER, India

1. The Future of IPRs &
Bio-Pharmaceutical Innovation from
The Global South
Chirantan Chatterjee
IIMA & Hoover Institution, Stanford University
www.chirantanchatterjee.com
Changing Nature of Innovation Conference
Ahmedabad University and CTIER
May 2021

2. Of a previous pathogenic outbreak discovery in 2010

3. India a hotbed of AMR, yet Carbapenem sales go up!

4. Why Is it that We are Not generating New Antibiotics?

5. Some Answers from a Field Trip in Summer 2007-2008
- Agglomeration Economies.
- Where is the Scientist-Entrepreneur? (Bayh
Dole Act & Pasteur’s Quadrant).
- Even pre-Covid no Patient Venture Capital.
- Human Capital Issues.
- An extinct taste for biology while focusing on
chemistry in the last 5 decades.
- Regulatory flipflops & flight of entrepreneurs
to locations like Singapore.
- Other locations rising (S-Korea, Bangladesh
among others).
- India and perhaps global south, more and more
an incrementally innovative society (than a
radically innovative society).
- Services & tech innovation takes precedence
over a life-science economy.

6. Where to Next for the Industry?
- Biosimilars (requires science, clinical trials,
regulation)
- Preventive Innovation than Therapeutic
Innovation (Medical Devices startups like
Janacare, Xcyton Diagnostics, Achira et al.)
- Drug Repurposing (Beyond Lopinavir).
- R&D versus non R&D Alliances (the Roche-Cipla
efforts).
- Structural Shifts in Innovation Ecosystem
Required
- Taking advantage of the mRNA Disruption as
other countries catch up.
- Forming R&D Consortiums ala the Japanese?
- Differding, E. (2017). The Drug Discovery and
Development Industry in India—Two Decades of
Proprietary Small‐Molecule R&D.
ChemMedChem, 12(11), 786-818.

7. Global R&D Situation 2021 - India appears, more expected

8. Global R&D Situation 2021 - The Molnupiravir Effect

9. Global R&D Situation 2021 - Oncology Dominates

10. Global R&D Situation 2021 - Changing Nature of Innovation

11. Global R&D Situation 2021
Role of Global South/India in Flourishing Markets for Technology?

12. Global R&D Situation 2021
Role of Global South/India in Flourishing Markets for Technology?

13. Push & Pull Regulatory Shifts - Local & Global

14. Covid-19 Patent Waiver, RCEP, LDC TRIPS transition, Geo-Politics et al.

15. Thank You - Health & Wealth - Tough New World & Trade-offs Ahead..
■ “There is nothing I fear more than
waking up without a program that will
help me bring a little happiness to
those with no resources, those who are
poor, illiterate, and ridden with
terminal disease.” - Nelson Mandela.