Blog

• Publication of Proposals Summaries

  16 February 2018 by Laurie Parma

  Following the publication of our first report: the Horizon Scan Report and accompanying review of the most important remuneration rights style proposals to date Proposals Database. We are pleased to announce that 20 of these proposals have been indi... read more ›

• Spotify & Remuneration Rights: similarities between two open information models

  16 February 2018 by Laurie Parma

  If the remuneration rights model is desirable, practical, economically fit, legal and possible, it is fair to wonder whether similar initiatives have been done before. Spotify, the music streaming service, is a good example of a business that has exp... read more ›

• Publication of Horizon Scan Report

  14 December 2017 by Rose Hadshar

  iMED is pleased to announce the publication of its first report: the Horizon Scan Report. Commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, this report surveys the existing and potential funding mechanisms for pharmaceutical research and development. The r... read more ›

• iMed Introduction

  14 December 2017 by Sylvie Barbier

  iMed (Innovating Medicines Entrepreneurship and Delivery) is a project researching financial incentives for pharmaceutical research and development. Today, millions of people around the world cannot afford access to life-saving medicines. Health prov... read more ›

• Money flow under Remuneration Rights

  2 November 2017 by Sylvie Barbier

  Money flow under the current system Money only moves through the current system in one way: via the sale of drugs. Because of this, pharmaceutical companies are awarded patent monopolies on their innovations, which allow them to control access to the... read more ›

• iMed receives Rockefeller Foundation funding

  1 November 2017 by Rose Hadshar

  Art / Earth / Tech are delighted to announce that they have received a grant of $199,975 from The Rockefeller Foundation. The grant will be used to launch the first phase of iMed (Innovating Medical Entrepreneurship and Delivery). The project will fo... read more ›

• Remuneration Right Distribution Flow

  20 October 2017 by Sylvie Barbier

  Money flow under remuneration rights system Under the remuneration rights system, money moves around in two separate streams. One stream is used to reward medical innovation, which is expensive, and the other to purchase drugs (which physically embod... read more ›

• Who are we?

  30 August 2017 by Robert Hart

  Many today are accustomed to the idea that access to medicines and medical innovation are conflicting principles, and that without patents awarding monopoly rights we will be unable to develop any new medicines at all. But this patent-driven approach... read more ›

• Why we are doing this?

  25 August 2017 by Robert Hart

  iMed Project Blog – ‘Why are we doing this?’ It’s clear that the current system we use to produce medicines—based on patent law and intellectual property—isn’t working. Prices are kept high, people cannot access medicines and the development of certa... read more ›

• What is the issue?

  20 August 2017 by Robert Hart

  In the hit TV show Breaking Bad, high school chemistry teacher Walter White is driven to a life of crime in order to pay for his cancer treatment. While White is fictional, his situation—the inability to afford the medicine he needed to survive—is no... read more ›