Biotechnology Companies
Biotechnology companies are those that manufacture products utilizing biotechnology. Many pharmaceutical companies can be nominally classified in this category based not on the use of biotechnology during the drug discovery process, but on having one or more marketed products that is manufactured utilizing biotechnology. By the definition used here, companies that produce by standard manufacturing methods items essential for biotechnology work should not appear in this category.
Interesting facts
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The pharmaceutical industry in the United Kingdom directly employs around 72,000 people and in 2007 contributed £8.4 billion to the UK's GDP and invested a total of £3.9 billion in research and development. In 2007 exports of pharmaceutical products from the UK totalled £14.6 billion, creating a trade surplus in pharmaceutical products of £4.3...
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