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India's Asian Age led its front page Monday with the news that India plans to cash in on the Viagra craze by exporting its essential chemical ingredient to countries not yet covered by Pfizer's patent.
It also might consist of such quantitative measures as bibliometrics (for example, publication counts, citation counts and analysis, and peer evaluation); patent counts and analysis; and science "indicators" that assess the ongoing vitality of the research (for example, statistics on scientific and engineering personnel, graduate students and degree recipients by field and sector).
A significant impediment to publication and cooperation comes from university patent policies.
Authors Ioannis G Pallikaris and Harilaos S Ginis are patent holders and have proprietary interest in PALM technique.
In any case, grants and patent incentives were never designed with tropical diseases in mind.