Global Dementia Legacy Event: Professor Andrew Lo

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Launch public/private partnerships using debt markets, CDOs, CDSs, etc. Provide government guarantees Offer 20-year patent life upon approval for the next 5 effective dementia therapies Fund more basic research, which offers no imminent financial return but is key What Can Governments Do? © 2014 by Andrew W. Lo

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Session Four: Exploring the financial mechanisms that can be harnessed to increase investment in dementia. Professor Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan Professor of Finance

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Launch public/private partnerships using debt markets, CDOs, CDSs, etc.

Provide government guarantees Offer 20-year patent life upon approval

for the next 5 effective dementia therapies

Fund more basic research, which offers no imminent financial return but is key to developing targets, e.g., “War on Cancer”

What Can Governments Do?

© 2014 by Andrew W. Lo

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© 2014 by Andrew W. Lo