Executive Briefing - The biotech company league table
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The world's first biotechnology company, Genentech, was founded in 1976. 30 years later there were 4,275 biotechnology companies worldwide, of which 710 were publicly listed. Dr Peter Charlish reviews the fortunes of the top 100 biotech companies involved in human healthcare on the basis of product sales and R&D investment