Research and development (R&D) productivity has long been a topic of concern amongst industry analysts (Drug Inf. J. 34, 1169–1194; 2000). In general, R&D productivity can be thought of as comprising ...

A few months ago, I started the process of moving all my journalling to a digital device with the goal of being more efficient. It was during the transition that I realized that I had overlooked the ...

In "Efficiency v effectiveness" last week, Dave Trott described the problem of focusing on efficiency first in the creative industry. In short, when trying to reduce costs, one can also compromise the ...

Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast. He spoke with sociologist Elizabeth Popp Berman who says it's okay to spend big on policy that improves ...

Large catastrophic events, or rare acute events, may cause situations in which a local jurisdiction’s medicines and medical supplies are not sufficient to provide care to the population it serves. In ...