Array   The past three years have been some of the most eventful in memory for Taiwan’s life sciences industry. At this year’s Bio Taiwan exhibition, the annual conference that invites the international life sciences com-munity to the island, the excitement was palpable. Foreign companies turned out in record numbers to…

APL Care With over 6,000 inhabited islands forming the country of Indonesia, making sure that drugs are where they are needed, when they are needed, is a major challenge. How is this challenge managed today, and what will happen once the government introduces universal healthcare in January 2014? A manager that won…

Array Ask Indonesians about a bad experience in medical care and each will have a story to tell. The poor state of Indonesia’s healthcare system has turned ‘improving quality’ into the top priority of the government of Indonesia. Better quality of care has become especially important as the fourth most populated…

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…

  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…

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…

  Without a doubt, Malaysia shares all the major attributes of an emerging market, from the potential to expand market penetration to the increasing purchasing power of the population. So the question is: Why have only two multinationals established manufacturing facilities in the country? Why was Malaysia not added to…

  The Taiwanese pharmaceutical industry has reached a crucial tipping point: After many years of building up an impressive resource base, from world-class research institutes, universities, and scientists to pharmaceutical entrepreneurs and internationally competitive companies, the industry is finally ready to take advantage of the wave of enthusiasm and interest…

  Despite a population of 95 million and a growing economy, the Philippine pharmaceutical industry has been largely overlooked in the past–but things are about to change. The industry has been quite radically reshaped in the last year, following the approval of the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act,…

The Indonesian Pharmaceutical industry has always held tremendous potential. Yet, somehow, over the past decades, the local industry was quickly dwarfed by regional powerhouses India and China, and even surpassed in size by Thailand, a country with one quarter the population of Indonesia’s vast archipelago. Some pundits see the country…

Korea   Already an economic powerhouse thriving on export-driven industries such as electronics, automotive and ship-building, South Korea is now looking to boost its potential in the life sciences and to move towards an innovation-based economy. Though it may traditionally be known in the West as ‘The Land of the Morning…

  Australia, the “land down under” to many Westerners, is sometimes left at just that — out of sight, and out of mind. But investors who ignore Australia do so at their own peril. Because of its distance from the rest of the West, the country is often overlooked for…