Tagged with development

investment agency The Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) is a government agency underneath the Puerto Rican Department of Economic Development and Commerce designed to facilitate industrial investments in the country from abroad. Antonio Medina Comas, PRIDCO’s executive director, discusses the agency’s critical job in stimulating the economy while highlighting recent successes.…

Alexion Mexico is improving its regulatory framework for orphan drugs. The general manager of Alexion Mexico explains how the company is working with the authorities to ensure adequate regulation is put in place, and how Alexion is communicating with patients’ associations and medical community to raise awareness about ultra-rare diseases.  …

Monash University Professor Kenneth K. C. Lee, Head of the School of Pharmacy at Monash University Malaysia, discusses the institution’s position as a hub for health economics in the Asia Pacific region and explains the factors that will make the university a pharmaceutical leader.   There is a lot of competition in…

innovation Dr. Jung Yun-Taek, head researcher of the pharmaceutical division at the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), discusses the real potential that Korean pharmaceutical companies offer to the rest of the world for disruptive and incremental innovation.   What are the current trends in Korea’s pharmaceutical industry? The global market…

development Glenmark’s country manager for Argentina discusses Argentina’s development expertise and how companies like Glenmark can capitalize on it through partnerships and collaborations.    How did you become part of Glenmark, and what was your main objective when you took the helm in Argentina? I joined Glenmark five years ago as…

CRO Alan Ong, executive vice president for the Asia/Pacific region at INC Research, outlines the key challenges and opportunities that CROs face in the Malaysian clinical trial segment and describes INC’s role in raising the country’s profile as a destination for research.   You represented another global CRO for almost 13…

investment Newcomers to Algeria’s fledgling, but increasingly vibrant pharmaceuticals sector are immediately struck by the sense of liveliness pervading the industry. Indeed, as growth patterns in developed markets continue to flatten, and the protagonists of ‘big pharma’ pivot towards securing new revenue sources in emergent economies, Algeria must surely constitute one…

regulation PEMANDU’s Director for the Healthcare National Key Economic Area gives a thorough understanding of the various entry point projects that were implemented since 2010 to help Malaysia become a high income nation by 2020 and a reference in terms of healthcare quality worldwide.   How would you describe the healthcare…

Array In Taiwan, biotech is finally booming, and more and more of the companies benefitting from this boom are listing on the Gre Tai Securities Market (GTSM), built with small to medium enterprises in mind, and tailored for companies that are part of emerging industries. But are these companies overvalued, and…

Pharmaceutical Industry Technology and Development Center (PITDC) The president of Pharmaceutical Industry Technology and Development Center (PITDC) considers the company’s need to remain an international competitor and how to achieve it, the gap in new drug development in Taiwan, and PITDC’s mission to bring the country’s domestic companies to the international level. What are your thoughts on…

investment The Deputy Executive Secretary of Taiwan’s National Development Fund discusses the recent shift in focus from semiconductors to biotech investments; why this has been a huge success thus far and why international collaboration will further benefit the market in Taiwan. Over the years, the National Development Fund (NDF) has increasingly…

Basic Research A leading figure in the Taiwanese pharmaceutical sector, Lee divulges the practicalities behind ECFA, the free trade agreement that was signed between China and Taiwan in 2010 but has not yet come into full force; questions whether a lack of multinational investment has been a major disadvantage for Taiwan; explains…