Health Policy And High-tech Industrial Development Learning From Innovation In The Health Industry

Many countries and regions are actively promoting high technology industries as a means of stimulating the economy. The authors point out that these efforts are not only encouraging economic development, but they also reduce an economy's vulnerability to the negative consequences of world trade. By weaving together the fields of health economics, industrial organization and industrial development, this book describes the benefits of promoting a country's health industry as a way of stimulating its high-technology industrial capacity. The authors illustrate that the development of a country's health industry not only improves the country's health status, but also promotes an industry with relatively stable, high wage employment, creates the potential for exporting goods and services, and produces scientific spillovers that will favorably impact other high-technology industries.Di Tommaso, Marco R. is the author of 'Health Policy And High-tech Industrial Development Learning From Innovation In The Health Industry', published 2005 under ISBN 9781843767572 and ISBN 1843767570.