But the drug's success highlights how difficult it is for pharmaceutical firms to invent new medicines.
Those who have faith in people's ability to invent and advance have lost a powerful ally.
Notice that it's easy to invent new abbreviations but hard to make up new pictograms.
Not so much when the task is to invent the next game changing technology.
Without patents, there would be no incentive for private companies to invent new medicines.
What we would like, in a perfect world, is for everyone to invent their own stuff.
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Why else would California have Silicon Valley but to invent precisely such solutions to humanity's problems?
The riskiest tactic for generics makers is to try to invent their own drugs.
Frankly, if the Lord Chancellor did not exist, no one today would want to invent him.
They added two elements to that: focus on customers and partners.plus ability to invent and innovate.
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Rather, other technologies advance to the point where it is possible to invent something using them.
What car company would try to invent a future that included shared usage of significantly fewer cars?
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After scientists discovered the existence of germs in the 1860s, it took 60 years to invent antibiotics.
Now that re-engineering foreign drugs is becoming illegal, local pharmaceutical companies are starting to invent their own.
So scientists are studying the environment around tumors in order to invent drugs that will halt their spread.
Mobile devices offer the potential to invent and deliver differentiated services that cannot be delivered through other channels.
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Built in there is the ability to influence others, to invent and deliver on behalf of the customer.
Last year she was in a study of a promising experimental drug the CF Foundation paid to invent.
Once our ancestors felt reasonably secure, their ambitions grew and they began to invent technologies of social organization.
It was that very compulsion that inspired 16th century inventor William Lee to invent the first knitting machine.
Brands spend billions every year trying (and often failing) to invent novel associations for their products or services.
If you were starting now and you wanted to invent a retailer, you wouldn't invent Woolworths, he says.
While online upstarts such as HotWired struggled to make money--they had to invent the banner ad--print titles flourished.
What does it feel like to invent something that becomes universal and invaluable and even taken for granted?
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Firms that have modest inventions that are easy to invent around will not incur the cost of obtaining patents.
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Some others try to invent new problems, with solutions that are difficult to understand and explain for normal users.
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In comparison, it took 15 years to invent the first polyethylene, which came out of the lab in 1933.
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There are other kinds of business models that we have yet to invent.
The only way that is going to happen is for America to invent something new and big, and fast.
Each is a well thought-out query into being too hot for the contemporary yet unable to invent the future.
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