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Eroom's law

Eroom's law proper noun: the observation that drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time, despite improvements in technology.

Proper noun

Eroom's law

  1. The observation that drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time, despite improvements in technology.
    • 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 2010.2014, Jeremy A. Greene, Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 271
    • 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 […]2018, Mark Stevenson, We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World, Abrams, →ISBN

Origin of Eroom's law

From Moore's law with Moore spelled backwards, coined in a 2012 paper.

Questions about Eroom's law

What does Eroom's law mean?
Eroom's law means the observation that drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time, despite improvements in technology.
What part of speech is Eroom's law?
Eroom's law is a proper noun.

Words near Eroom's law in the dictionary

  1. eromba
  2. eromenoi
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  4. Erondu-Cymet syndrome
  5. Eronen syndrome
  6. Eroom's law
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  9. erosely
  10. Eroses
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