Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Santiago-Rodriguez, Fernando
Author-Email: rodriguez@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Facing the Trial of Internationalizing Clinical Trials to Developing Countries: 
	 Some Evidence from Mexico
Abstract: In pursuit of innovation, developing countries play an increasingly 
	 relevant role for multinational pharmaceutical firms. Driven partly by 
	 cost considerations but also by some host country-specific scientific 
	 and technological factors, global drug companies increasingly relocate 
	 part of their drug development activities to those countries. In 
	 particular, expansion of clinical trials performed in some of the more 
	 advanced developing countries is notable over the last years. This paper 
	 critically addresses some of these issues with particular reference to 
	 Mexico. The latter case equally illustrates some challenges developing 
	 countries face to accommodate and govern local performance of clinical 
 	 trials according to strict internationally accepted regulatory and 
	 ethical principles.
Classification-JEL: I18, F23, L65, O32
Keywords: Internationalization of R&D, Governance of clinical trials, 
	 Developing countries, Mexico
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 2008-023
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-023.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2008023