Tournament: CSUF | Round: 1 | Opponent: Prestige DH | Judge: Brown, Scott
Patent driven innovation post-Covid-19 is flourishing and is key to prevent pandemics
Macdole and Ezell 4-29 ~Jaci Mcdole and Stephen Ezell ~{Jaci McDole is a senior policy analyst covering intellectual property (IP) and innovation policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). She focuses on IP and its correlations to global innovation and trade. McDole holds a double BA in Music Business and Radio-Television with a minor in Marketing, an MS in Education, and a JD with a specialization in intellectual property (Southern Illinois University Carbondale). McDole comes to ITIF from the Institute for Intellectual Property Research, an organization she co-founded to study and further robust global IP policies. Stephen Ezell is vice president, global innovation policy, at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). He comes to ITIF from Peer Insight, an innovation research and consulting firm he cofounded in 2003 to study the practice of innovation in service industries. At Peer Insight, Ezell led the Global Service Innovation Consortium, published multiple research papers on service innovation, and researched national service innovation policies being implemented by governments worldwide. Prior to forming Peer Insight, Ezell worked in the New Service Development group at the NASDAQ Stock Market, where he spearheaded the creation of the NASDAQ Market Intelligence Desk and the NASDAQ Corporate Services Network, services for NASDAQ-listed corporations. Previously, Ezell cofounded two successful innovation ventures, the high-tech services firm Brivo Systems and Lynx Capital, a boutique investment bank. Ezell holds a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, with an honors certificate from Georgetown's Landegger International Business Diplomacy program.~}, 21 - ("Ten Ways Ip Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain The World Through The Pandemic," Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, 4-29-2021, https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through)//marlborough-wr/
To better understand the role of IP in enabling solutions related to COVID-19
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enabled innovative solutions to help global society navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pharma innovation is key to prevent devastating pandemics, bioterror, and ABR
Marjanovic and Fejiao 20 ~Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitive biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon, 2020, "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement." RAND Corporation, https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html~~/Kankee
As key actors in the healthcare innovation landscape, pharmaceutical and life sci-ences
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health threats to an even greater extent under improved innova-tion conditions.
Millett and Snyder-Beattie 17 ~Piers Millett, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. Andrew Snyder-Beattie: M.S., Director of Research, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.) " Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity," Health Security, 15(4), 08-01-2017, https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/hs.2017.0028~~ TDI
In the decades to come, advanced bioweapons could threaten human existence. Although the
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still ought to invest more in preventing the most extreme possible biosecurity catastrophes.