Italy Sicily plays a major role in a plethora of gangster stories, whether real or fictional; the initiated also know that it is the land of incredibly well preserved Greco-Roman sights and excellent food and wine. Fewer, however, are aware that the Italian island more recently gave birth to outstanding pharmaceutical…

Despite its diminutive size, the Netherlands has historically carried a large weight in the world because of certain cultural endowments: small but united, entrepreneurial, innovative, and externally oriented. During the Dutch Golden Age, the “low country” monopolized international trade and commerce giving rise to tulip manias, artistic masters, and the…

In some ways the Australian medicines industry is going through the same restructuring and challenges as the industry is going through globally: the country deals with patent cliffs, companies are cutting back staff, an ageing population forces the government to rethink healthcare expenditures, and big originator companies are restructuring. And…

  The ’90s was an enthusiastic time. With the fall of communism in 1989 and the emergence of the free economy, the international pharmaceutical industry arrived in the Czech Republic to find a highly receptive market. Modern therapies found alacritous patients. Uninitiated Czech doctors welcomed pharmaceutical representatives into their offices…

In the global theater of business and politics, Turkey increasingly leverages its location as an ideal vantage point where actors can seamlessly move between all things West and East. An emerging Asian market with a special relationship to the European Union and close ties with the Middle East, Turkey’s strategic…

  Over ten years ago, the economic concept of the ‘BRIC’ countries- Brazil, Russia, India and China – was formed, and it’s pretty much all we’ve heard about ever since. Yet earlier this year, the very same man who coined the term – Jim O’Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs…

Mexico Despite being in the Mexican market for over twenty years, biosimilars have never been regulated as a separate entity. They have always been regulated as simply another category of generic medicines.  “This enabled almost unmonitored competition from China, India, South Korea and other fast-growing countries, which sometimes caused more damage…

  Indochina’s biggest pharmaceutical market (US$ 4 billion, 66 million population, <5 percent of GDP spent on healthcare) has quickly matured over the past years due to the implementation of heavy cost containment measures meant to make healthcare more accessible to the patient. These measures have driven the market from…

  An emerging country with a dynamic market, South Africa is widely seen as the gateway to Africa. From major multinational pharmaceutical corporations to burgeoning local generic companies, a wide range of industry players are present, developing their best strategy to make the most of the many opportunities within the…

Hungary With approximately $90 billion flowing into the country (according to the Hungarian Investment and Trade Agency) since it abolished its centrally planned economy and transformed into an open, pro-business economy in 1989, Hungary has been a leading destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Together…

As the global economic roller coaster continues to unfold, governments the world over have desperately been scrambling to find the right policies that will effectively clamp on the brakes to end this unnerving joyride we have witnessed over the last few months, if not years. The frontline of this battle…

What probably best explains the contrasts in the Indian pharmaceutical landscape is the fact that India can take many shapes and forms and that different companies in India will keep pursuing different strategies. On a final note Glenmark’s Saldanha says that ‘there are some who will continue to focus on…