Hanmi’s Case: One Failure Doesn’t Speak For All
Executive Summary
Since Boehringer Ingelheim’s u-turn on its lung cancer partnership with Hanmi Pharmaceutical, the South Korean company has seen its stock prices falling and latterly a government investigation. Confidence in the country’s burgeoning drug development industry has taken a hit but there are still plenty of reasons to believe in the country’s R&D engine.
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