Tagged with Investment

Ecuador Felipe Espinosa, executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ecuador, recounts the country’s relationship with international free trade and recent developments favorable to the latter. Espinosa highlights the progress made by the national institutions to attract and retain additional economic activity in a country where the cost of…

UK Mike Belton of the British Swiss Chamber of Commerce discusses the capabilities of the organization, its role within the British and Swiss investment ecosystem, and how Switzerland can act as a model for the UK post-Brexit. Can you start by introducing the British Swiss Chamber of Commerce so we can…

Canada Moving into the position of National Pharma & Life Sciences Leader, PwC’s Rami El-Cheikh announces the firm’s plan to introduce the comprehensive Pharma Advisory Services currently existing in the US into Canada, including enterprise and function-specific service expertise. He further identifies areas of potential growth in healthcare-related industries, putting forward…

UK Sarah Haywood, CEO of MedCity, the life science cluster for London, Oxford and Cambridge in the southeast of England, discusses the organization’s strategy, key achievements, Brexit, and supporting SMEs. Why was there a need to create yet another life sciences cluster four years ago? Aren’t there already enough in this…

Lithuania Lithuania’s biotech sector has grown by between 20 and 25 percent over the last five years and accounts for over one percent of the entire country’s GDP. Key industry stakeholders are, however, split on whether Lithuania truly holds the potential to become a biotech hub that can stand alongside nations…

Canada Investissement Québec (IQ) contributed to the completion of 65 international projects in 2017 and hosts Pfizer, Sanofi, and Merck amongst over 160 IT companies, employing over 5,400 workers. Pierre Gabriel Côté, CEO of IQ, took the reins in January 2015 and intends to digitize the investment space using Artificial Intelligence…

Canada Upon opening an R&D center in Mississauga in 2017, Biolab Pharma Canada, headed by Paulo Wickbold Marques, became the first Brazilian pharmaceutical company to establish an affiliate in Canada. In this interview, Paulo describes Biolab’s bold leap from Latin America, the strengths of the Canadian pharmaceutical landscape and how the…

UK Much of the new inward investment in the UK from international pharmaceutical companies is from those that wish their discovery science to be in close adjacency to the most successful basic science programmes in biomedicinein the world. The co-location of pharmaceutical discovery sciences adjacent to the best universities (AstraZeneca in Cambridge, Novo Nordisk…

UK Simon Gillespie of the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the UK’s leading national heart charity, outlines the organization’s mission, the issues surrounding translational research, and the potential impact of Brexit on the UK life sciences landscape.   One of the key matters for us is that we don’t have direct customers.…

UK Hilary Evans of Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK), the UK’s leading national research charity in the field of dementia, discusses her organization’s mission; the growing awareness of, and investment in, dementia research, care and diagnosis; and the enduring importance of international collaboration.   In the UK, when people want to help…

Canada Allan O’Dette has been at the helm of the Ontario Investment Office since April 2017. As CIO, he underlines the importance of the life sciences sector in the province, while referencing the highly developed research centers, the future direction for the Ontario Investment Office (OIO) and why Toronto and the…

Brazil “Brazil undoubtedly holds great development opportunities for the global pharmaceutical and healthcare industries,” boldly states Minister of Health Ricardo Barros, “and we hope to gain the trust of an increasing number of international investors and jointly work on improving the healthcare products and services available to our 207 million Brazilian…