Innovation and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry : emerging practices, research, and policies / edited by Min Ding, Jehoshua Eliashberg, and Stefan Stremersch

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1 The Pharmaceutical Industry: Specificity, Challenges and What You Can Learn from this Book -- Chapter 2 Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Process of Drug Discovery and Development -- Chapter 3 Portfolio Management in New Drug Development -- Chapter 4 Grassroots Innovation: A Promising Innovation Paradigm for Pharmaceutical Companies -- Chapter 5 New Challenges in Alliance Portfolio Management -- Chapter 6 Evaluating the Impact of Treatment Effectiveness and Side Effects in Prescribing Choices -- Chapter 7 The Successful Launch and Diffusion of New Therapies -- Chapter 8 Pharmaceutical Lifecycle Extension Strategies -- Chapter 9 Patent Expiry and Pharmaceutical Market Opportunities at the Nexus of Pricing and Innovation Policy -- Chapter 10 Risk Assessment: The Consumer as an Intuitive Statistician -- Chapter 11 Efficacy Expectations and Adherence: Evidence of Consumer Biases and Heuristics in Pharmaceutical Marketing -- Chapter 12 Factors Affecting Adherence to Governmental Health Warnings and the Case of Over-the-Counter Cough and Cold Medications (OTC-CCM) in Children Under Two -- Chapter 13 Vaccine Marketing -- Chapter 14 Patient Empowerment: Consequences for Pharmaceutical Marketing and for the Patient-Physician Relationship -- Chapter 15 Leveraging Peer-to-Peer Networks in Pharmaceutical Marketing -- Chapter 16 Leveraging Social Media in the Pharmaceutical Industry -- Chapter 17 Understanding Sample Usage and Sampling as a Promotion Tool: State of Industry Practice and Current Research -- Chapter 18 Pharmaceutical Detailing Elasticities: A Meta-Analysis -- Chapter 19 Marketing Spending Models -- Chapter 20 Modeling the Effects of Promotional Efforts on Pharmaceutical Demand: What We Know and Challenges for the Future -- Chapter 21 Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals: An Integrative Review -- Chapter 22 How DTCA Influences Prescription Pharmaceutical Markets -- Chapter 23 Spillovers and Other Externalities in Pharmaceutical Marketing -- Chapter 24 Closing the Marketing Strategy-Tactics Gap: An Institutional Theory Analysis of Pharmaceutical Value Chain.

The pharmaceutical industry is one of today's most dynamic and complex industries, involving commercialization of cutting-edge scientific research, a huge web of stakeholders (from investors to doctors), multi-stage supply chains, fierce competition in the race to market, and a challenging regulatory environment.