Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Filippov, Sergey
Author-Email: filippov@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Kalotay, Kalman
Author-Email: kalman.kalotay@unctad.org
Author-Workplace-Name: UNCTAD
Title: New Europe's Promise for Life Sciences
Abstract: The life sciences sector (and biotechnology in particular) has emerged 
	 as a prospective area, and attracted a lot of attention recently. 
	 Multinational companies in the life sciences seek to explore new 
	 markets, and, on the other side, governments strive to develop the life 
	 sciences sector perceiving it as a basis for long-term development. 
	 Whilst the R&D activities of global multinationals in life sciences 
	 still remain concentrated in the Triadic economies, these companies 
	 increasingly seek for new location to tap the knowledge. New EU member 
	 states emerge as such prospective locations. Notwithstanding the 
	 interest towards this sector, the body of literature on the development 
	 of life sciences in new EU member states, and particularly, the role of 
	 multinational companies, remains scant. In this explorative study we 
	 attempt to fill this gap and focus on the role of multinational 
	 companies in the Czech life sciences sector.
Classification-JEL: F21, F23, L65, O32 
Keywords: Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Multinational Companies,
	 European Union
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 026
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-026.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2008026