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Sweden Sweden’s pharmaceutical exports shot up 27% in first quarter 2019, continuing an upward growth trend in an industry that is increasingly well-renowned internationally for its quality and high technology.   The Swedish healthcare and life sciences sector enjoys a good reputation abroad and is strongly associated with quality and innovation…

Sweden The Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe and a globally renowned healthcare institution. Björn Zoëga was recently appointed as its director after major investments were made in a brand-new state-of-the-art facility. He explains the challenges that lie ahead, the hospital’s Patient First…

Puerto Rico With more than 50 years of experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing, Puerto Rico is today a manufacturing base for 11 of the world’s 20 largest pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies. However, considering its economic struggles and rising competition both from US states and international manufacturing hubs such as Ireland and Singapore, the…

China The pharmaceutical industries of China and India, historically focused on their large domestic markets and exports to developed nations, are increasingly forging closer links. With US trade tariffs affecting both countries and regulatory reform underway in China, Indian firms are jumping at the chance to bring their competitively-priced drugs to…

China The company sold 551 million shares in the latest IPO on the Hong Kong Exchange and plans to invest half of its earnings in R&D. Hong Kong is now the second largest biotech funding hub in the world.    Hansoh Pharmaceutical, one of China’s fastest-growing pharma companies, raised a billion…

Europe European MidPharmas – R&D based pharmaceutical companies with annual revenues of between EUR 50 million and 5 billion – are having to be increasingly focused and resilient to succeed and fend off their inherent vulnerabilities according to a new report from specialist pharma and biotech consultancy Novasecta.   Focus 75…

Spain José Herraez, general manager of Beckman Coulter in Iberia, sheds light on the special features of the Danaher business model, and how that has aided his personal growth. Herraez also discusses the impact of the new innovation Beckman Coulter is bringing to labs in Spain.   The sector is moving…

Spain Jesús Donado, CEO of B. Braun Spain introduces the company’s strong footprint in Spain, as a manufacturing hub and a global centre of excellence for the company. Donado also discusses the challenge of offering solution and treatment-based services, while having to sell through product and volume-based tenders.   We are…

France The latest issue of Healthcare & Life Sciences Review France follows on from our March 2019 report and takes a closer look at the wider French life sciences value chain and the spirit of innovation and reform sweeping the nation.   A reform-minded and business-oriented administration under President Emmanuel Macron…

Spain Margarita Alfonsel, general secretary of Fenin, offers her perspective on the state of the MedTech industry in Spain, the changing dynamics between the public and private sector, and the issues of rolling out value-based healthcare.   Spanish healthcare devices are highly competitive and, as a group, we are present in…

Spain Esteve has long been a family-run business, though in early 2018 the Spanish champion decided to make a daring, though calculated, move and positioned the then CCO of Lundbeck, Staffan Schüberg, as their new CEO.   We have world-class experience [in neuroscience and gene therapy] and we see these areas…

France Not long ago, Laboratories Servier was considered a somewhat mysterious and opaque actor on the world pharmaceuticals stage. Privately owned, smaller and sleeker than many of its direct competitors, but nonetheless formidably successful, Servier has, for many years, been characterized by its discreet, understated approach and a rugged pragmatism and…