Cyprus Standing at the crossroads of three continents, Cyprus embodies the beauty and diversity of Mediterranean culture. Being tucked beneath Turkey and hugging the western shores of the Middle East gives a distinct eastern feel to the island nation. Yet the country leans strongly west as a full-fledged member of the…

Poland   Stretching across the heart of continental Europe, Poland is a massive bridge that links east and west, old and new, and which epitomizes a changing continent. At one time an enigmatic behemoth cast behind an iron curtain, Poland’s accession to the European Union in 2004 has injected its economy…

  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…

  Considered to be Latin America’s economic powerhouse, Chile is typically a solitary country that is forgotten, or remembered, because it is the most politically and economically stable in the region and therefore produces minimal headlines for the world—unless they involve tragic seismic events or heroic mining rescues. This loosely-populated…

Malta   Alan Camilleri, chairman of Malta Enterprise—the government agency responsible for facilitating and stimulating the development of Malta—recalls the words of a foreign investor, who had taken stake in Maltese business. The investor imagined what he would say to other potential promoters, if asked whether they should put their finances…

  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,…

Colombia today is not the Colombia of mainstream Hollywood. Once a country ravaged by domestic insecurity whose images of terror were exported to the rest of the world, the journey of Colombia over the past decade to its current economic, political, and social stability are a role model for Latin…

  Boasting three Nobel Prize winners from the life sciences, Argentina has had a long history of innovation. Immigration from Europe at the end of the 19th century saw the genesis of many of the national pharmaceutical companies that today control over 53% of the market. Access to highly qualified…

generics “The ball is in the hands of the government,” according to Giorgio Foresti, general manager of Ratiopharm. “Once aware of the opportunities created by generics, politicians will have to make hard decisions.” Until now, generics prescriptions were limited by strong links between innovators and doctors, and price alignment trends reducing…

The pharmaceutical industry arose from science – and so did Italy’s knowledge based economy. Building on a reputation for innovation carved in the 15th century, when Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo and other icons of the Italian Renaissance helped shape the modern world, the country’s life science industry is now…

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…