Matthew J. Higgins

Matthew J Higgins is Chair and H. Brent Beesley Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, Director of the Sorenson Center for Discovery and Innovation, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.

Stewardship as the way forward in fighting global antimicrobial resistance
With the World Health Organization's emphasis on stewardship and working together against antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the authors consider the importance of certain agents in preventing AMR. Looking at the 2010 super bug crisis in India, they find that the withdrawal of multinational firms from the carbapenem market caused Indian firms to fill the void and physicians to switch their product preferences. They highlight the importance of scientific publications in reporting and monitoring outbreaks, and the need to incentivise antibiotic innovation.
