Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Rao, Abhishek
Ezell et al 4/29 Jaci McDole, Stephen Ezell ~Stephen Ezell is vice president, global innovation policy, at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). He focuses on science and technology policy, international competitiveness, trade, manufacturing, and services issues.~ 4/29/21, "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic" Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through DD AG
Although anti-IP proponents have attacked biopharmaceutical manufacturers particularly hard, the reality is
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top two filing growths of 73 percent and 26 percent, respectively.30
Reductions in protections kill medical innovation, economic growth, and knowledge building for the future
McDole and Ezell 04/29 – Jaci McDole is a senior policy analyst covering intellectual property (IP) and innovation policy at ITIF. She focuses on IP and its correlations to global innovation and trade. Her work includes ITIF’s Innovate4Health Initiatives (2017–2019) and A Covid-19 TRIPS Waiver Makes No More Sense for Copyrights Than It Does for Patents (2021). McDole comes to ITIF from the Institute for Intellectual Property Research, an organization she cofounded to study and further robust global IP policies. Stephen J. Ezell is ITIF vice president for Global Innovation Policy. He focuses on science, technology, and innovation policy as well as international competitiveness and trade policy issues. He is the coauthor of Innovating in a Service Driven Economy: Insights Application, and Practice (Palgrave McMillan, 2015) and Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage (Yale 2012). The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute focusing on the intersection of technological innovation and public policy. Recognized by its peers in the think tank community as the global center of excellence for science and technology policy, ITIF’s mission is to formulate and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth, opportunity, and progress; April 29, 2021; "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic"; https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through advay
Innovation can—and does—happen anywhere and at any time. As society
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generations of biomedical innovation and thus perpetuate the enterprises into the future.13
1~ Turns their disease impact – future pandemics are more likely and more deadly which makes innovation key to stop extinction
Ceballos 5/27 Gerardo Ceballos ~PhD, Dr Gerardo Ceballos is an ecologist and conservationist at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is particularly recognized for his influential work on global patterns of distribution of diversity, endemism, and extinction risk in vertebrates. He is also well-known for his contribution to understanding the magnitude and impacts of the sixth mass extinction.~, 5/27/21, "THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY", Population Matters, https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/05/sixth-mass-extinction-and-future-humanity DD AG
Somewhere, sometime in late 2019, a coronavirus from a wild species, perhaps
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and civilization. What it is at stake is the future of mankind.
2~ Anticipated economic results in nuclear war – especially for a post-pandemic world
Tønnesson 15 ~Tønnesson is a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in Norway and the leader of the East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University in Sweden.~ "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace." International Area Studies Review, volume 18, number 3, pgs. 297-311. 2015 recut advay
Several recent works on China and Sino–US relations have made substantial contributions to
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each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene.