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The production of knowledge that leads to innovation has always been crucial to social, political and economic development, and nowhere is this more true than in the discovery, development and production of pharmaceuticals. However, the contemporary model of biomedical research tends to enclose knowledge by means of intellectual property rights(IPRs), awarded in exchange for the results of research and development. Indeed, this model has successfully incentivised numerous key medicines in several disease areas. However, in many others it has failed, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the present model of incentives to innovation is not compatible with any vision of the economic sustainability of global healthcare and it woefully neglects the health needs of the world’s poor, who enjoy very limited access to essential medicines.