Massimo Florio
‐ Professor of Public Economics ‐
Patents for vaccines: Biden’s (many) reasons
English translation of Massimo Florio's article published on the Italian journal Corriere della sera (18 May 2021)
“The pandemic has forced us to reconsider the relationship between public and private research. The question it poses is whether, over the next 20 years, governments’ only negotiating position on technologies that are the basis of vaccines, which were created with the contribution of the same governments, will be to sign one purchase contract after another.”
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Italian version of the article in Corriere della sera, 18 May 2021.
