Tournament: SFA Austin | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westlake Beskok | Judge: Patel, Vandan
Biopharma RandD is surging, but it's shaky because of productivity levels – now is not a time to let up
Adams 5/19 ~Ben Adams, Ben Adams is a business, science and healthcare journalist, 5-19-2021, "Biopharma RandD 'surged' in 2020, but trial productivity levels a mixed bag: report," FierceBiotech, https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/biopharma-r-d-surged-2020-but-trial-productivity-levels-a-mixed-bag-report~~ WW LD
A major global pandemic was not enough to stop surging rates of biopharma research and
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meet and even exceed expectations for new and better lifesaving therapies and vaccines."
Patents foster pharma innovation
Grabowski et al 15 ~Henry G. Grabowski, Joseph A. DiMasi, and Genia Long, February 2015, "The Roles Of Patents And Research And Development Incentives In Biopharmaceutical Innovation," https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1047~~ WW DL
The essential rationale for patent protection for biopharmaceuticals is that long-term benefits in
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rights on behalf of the federal government; none has been granted. 16
Cooper 6 ~Garth JS Cooper, independent medical scientist at the University of Auckland, "Fates Intertwined," March 2006, https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/file/cogem/cogem_t4505194e_001.pdf~~ recut WW LD
Biotechnology and pharmaceuticals are inextricably intertwined. Although biotech companies often rely upon the resources
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these industries will be transformed and the world of human therapeutics will flourish.
Doyle 08 ~Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, 6-3-2008, "Biotechnology seen as a key to solving food crisis," U.S., https://www.reuters.com/article/us-food-summit-biotech/biotechnology-seen-as-a-key-to-solving-food-crisis-idUSL0356693120080603~~ WW LD
"Biotechnology is one of the most promising tools for improving the productivity of agriculture
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to Bangladesh's agriculture ministry. "It shows the vulnerability of Bangladesh. "
FDI 12 (Future Directions International - a Research institute providing strategic analysis of Australia's global interests; citing Lindsay Falvery - PhD in Agricultural Science and former Professor at the University of Melbourne's Institute of Land and Environment, "Food and Water Insecurity: International Conflict Triggers and Potential Conflict Points," 5/25/12, http://www.futuredirections.org.au/publication/international-conflict-triggers-and-potential-conflict-points-resulting-from-food-and-water-insecurity/) recut WW DL
There is a growing appreciation that the conflicts in the next century will most likely
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identify famine as a potential trigger for conflicts and possibly even nuclear war.
Cribb '10 ~Julian, principal of JCA, fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences, "The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It", pg 10~ recut WW LD/WWVL
The character of human conflict has also changed: since the early 1990S, more
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changes, because of the synergetic character of the things that power it.