as global competition intensifies, research and development (r & d) organizations need to enhance their strategic management in order to become goal-directed communities for innovation and allocate their resources consistent with their overall r & d strategy. the world pharmaceutical market has undergone fast, unprecedented, tremendous and complex changes in the last several years. the pharmace...

like many other developing countries pharmacoeconomics and outcome research and its applications in national health system is a new but promising filed in iran. although decision makers of iran national health system decided to use pharmacoeconomics in the decision making approach several hurdles including lack of reliable national data, lack of expertise and local experience are the main chall...

according to the vital role of pharmaceutical industry in health care system, pharmaceutical supply chain security, standard production and distribution of the pharmaceutical products are of great importance for pharmaceutical companies. therefore, applying technology, especially radio frequency identification (rfid), is essential to achieve these goals. moreover, due to the importance of secur...

Pharmaceutical industry is considered as a high profitable industry which could play a considerable role in local economies (1). In middle-income countries, development of this industry could also be a priority for governments because of supplying locally needed medicines at lower cost compared with importation. In spite of existing about 90 manufacturing companies participating in pharmaceutic...

INTRODUCTION Medical talks, newsletter circulars, scientific meetings and conferences, and interaction with members of the pharmaceutical industry, have become convenient means of carrying out continuing medical education (CME) for many busy doctors. MATERIALS AND METHODS To study the perceived importance of these various CME activities, a self-completed posted questionnaire survey was conduc...

the supply chain represents the critical link between the development of new product and the market in pharmaceutical industry. over the years, improvements made in supply chain operations have focused largely on ways to reduce cost and gain efficiencies in scale. in addition, powerful regulatory and market forces have provided new incentives for pharmaceutical firms to basically rethink the wa...

INTRODUCTION The pharmaceutical industry is both blessed and cursed by data. There are a number of data sources and inputs available for Time Series (TS) analysis: total prescriptions, new prescriptions, total units, units by stock keeping unit, units by strength, days of therapy, patient days, retail units, hospital units, sales to wholesalers, retail pharmacy inventories and so forth[1]. In t...

background: this article sets up the initial discussion of the evolution of biopharmaceutical innovation in china through the perspective of sectoral innovation system (sis).methods: two data sources including archival documentary data and field interviews were used in this study. archival documentary data was collected from china food and drug administration (cfda) and chinese national knowled...