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Global R&D networks

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  • D. Jane Bower
  • Erica Whittaker

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The pharmaceutical industry is of considerable interest because of the significance of R&D and marketing expenditures in securing competitive advantage. The vast costs and risks entailed in new product development have spawned an international network of cooperative alliances between large pharmaceutical companies and small biotechnology companies, creating a complex web of inter-organisa-tional linkages spanning the globe. Without formal acknowledgment, this essentially cooperative network pools the resources of cash and expertise required to bring radically new technologies, products and processes to the market, in an atmosphere of fierce global competition between the major companies. The paper examines the case of Merck and its carefully constructed AIDS programme, which balances in-house development with longterm alliances forged with smaller firms and sometimes with competitors.

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  • D. Jane Bower & Erica Whittaker, 1993. "Global R&D networks," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 1(1), pages 50-64.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:indinn:v:1:y:1993:i:1:p:50-64
    DOI: 10.1080/13662719300000005
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    1. Billette de Villemeur, Etienne & Versaevel, Bruno, 2019. "One lab, two firms, many possibilities: On R&D outsourcing in the biopharmaceutical industry," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 260-283.
    2. Eleanor Morgan, 2001. "Innovation and Merger Decisions in the Pharmaceutical Industry," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 19(2), pages 181-197, September.
    3. Castillo Apraiz, Julen & Matey de Antonio, Jesús, 2020. "The mediating role of personnel training between innovation and performance: Evidence from the German pharmaceutical industry," Cuadernos de Gestión, Universidad del País Vasco - Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (IEAE).

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