The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: its evolution and current challenges

Umemura, Maki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1623-099X 2011. The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: its evolution and current challenges. Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia, vol. 101. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9780415587662
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Last Modified:	19 Oct 2022 10:49
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/25626

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