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Read more: Covid-19, global solidarity, and the case for equitable vaccine distribution through technology transfers
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health technologies to mitigate against the spread of the disease, but it has also demonstrated that the current biopharmaceutical business model, based on patented medicines and other technologies, leads to vast inequalities in healthcare particularly in low- and middle-income countries. We believe that the pharmaceutical industry has…
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Read more: Publicly-funded research in the era of Big Deals Publishers and Data Surveillance
POLICY BRIEF Publicly-funded research in the era of Big Deals Publishers and Data Surveillance Dr. Lai Ma, School of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin ORCID 0000-0002-0997-3605 A pdf version of this policy brief is available here. Key Insights The products of publicly-funded research are largely in the hands of commercial publishers. The…
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Read more: Tweetonomics: How do central banks communicate their policy decisions and why does it matter?
Donato Masciandaro, Bocconi University, Oana Peia, University College Dublin, and Davide Romelli, Trinity College Dublin A pdf version of this paper is available here. Introduction Over the past three decades, we have seen a radical transformation in the way central banks communicate to the public (Issing, 2005; Assenmacher et al., 2021). Previously characterized by silence…
