Eroom's law
English
Etymology
Moore's law spelled backwards, coined in a 2012 paper.[1]
Proper noun
Eroom's law
- (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, Abrams (→ISBN), unnumbered page:
- 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 […]
- 2014, Jeremy A. Greene, Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine, JHU Press (→ISBN), page 271:
Further reading
Eroom's law on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- 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, issue 3, DOI:, PMID 22378269, pages 191–200
Anagrams
- Moore's law