Author : Maki Umemura
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136828249
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Book Synopsis The Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry by : Maki Umemura
Download or read book The Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry written by Maki Umemura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why Japan, despite being a world leader in many high technology industries such as automobiles and consumer electronics, is only a minor player in the global pharmaceutical industry. Japan provides a huge market for pharmaceuticals as the second largest consumer of prescription drugs after the United States, and is a massive importer of prescription drugs, relying on discoveries made elsewhere. This book charts the development of the industry, from the devastation resulting from the Second World War to its performance in the present day. Focusing in particular on antibiotics and anticancer drugs, the book analyses factors that have prevented Japan from leading the rapid advances in science and technology that have occurred globally over recent decades. Looking at the pharmaceutical industry, the book argues that the Japanese government’s research and development policies were not sufficiently incentivising. It also shows how the nature of capitalism in Japan - which featured close relations between government and industry as well as between and within firms - was appropriate for nurturing industrial development in the immediate post-war decades, but became much less effective in later years.
