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Eroom's law

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Etymology edit

Moore's law spelled backwards, coined in a 2012 paper.[1]

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Eroom's law

  1. (pharmacology) The observation that drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time, despite improvements in technology.
    • 2014, Jeremy A. Greene, Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 271:
      Eroom's Law, in turn, observes that in the pharmaceutical sector the decline in innovation is itself constant: the yield of FDA-approved drugs per billion dollars spent has halved every nine years between 1950 and 2010.
    • 2018, Mark Stevenson, We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World‎[1], Abrams, →ISBN:
      With a touch of wry humour, the authors dubbed this phenomenon Eroom's law, the reverse spelling of Moore's Law – the famous law of computing that expresses the doubling of processing power per dollar every two years […]

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  1. ^ Jack W. Scannell, Alex Blanckley, Helen Boldon, Brian Warrington (2012) “Diagnosing the decline in pharmaceutical R&D efficiency”, in Nature Reviews. Drug Discovery, volume 11, number 3, →DOI, →PMID, pages 191–200

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