Autori:
Onetti, Alberto,
Fratocchi, Luciano,
Pisoni, Alessia,
Talaia, MarcoTitolo:
Location of value added activities in hi-tech industries. The case of pharma-biotech firms in ItalyPeriodico:
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria. Dipartimento di Economia. Quaderni di ricercaAnno:
2007 - Fascicolo:
8 - Pagina iniziale:
1 - Pagina finale:
20This paper aims at analysing the main features of the activities carried out by the
Italian biotech industry. This topic is so wide and various that particularly we decided
to focus on the value added activities of the so-called “pharma-biotech”, i.e.
pharmaceutical firms that have diversified in the biotech business or pharmaceutical
spin-offs. First of all we try to identify the main activities carried out by the studied
companies. Particularly, we focus on R&D carried out on biotech, trying to measure its
extent both in terms of employees involved and of percentage of total investments.
Moreover, we provide a picture of the range of R&D activities performed and the
contribution arising from the cooperation with actors in and out of the industry. It is
worth pointing out the exploratory scope of this paper that at the present is not yet able
to provide through managerial guidelines for decision makers. With this respect, the
sample is composed of companies operating in Italy in specific business within the
biotech industry. More specifically, in order to reach earlier presented goals, attention
was paid on the so called red biotech segment, that is biotech companies which develop
drugs and diagnostics. This segment - which is predominant at worldwide level - was
further divided accordingly to the adopted business model: born-biotech companies
(more focused on R&D activities) and pharma-biotech companies (generally operating
also manufacturing and sales activities). The research interest was finally focused on
the latter segment, which was divided among pharma-oriented and biotech-oriented
companies.
The paper is structured in four main sections. In the first one, the most relevant features
of biotech firms are discussed on the base of a literature review. In the second
paragraph, adopted methodology is presented and sample main characteristics are
discussed. In the third section, the main results regarding the localization of R&D
activities study carried out on the biotech activities in Italy are presented. The
conclusions complete the paper.
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