Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Technological Change and the Pharmaceutical Industry 3. Cardiovascular Drugs 4. Anti-Asthmatic Drugs 5. Histamine H2 Antagonists 6. LHRH Analogues 7. Three Case Studies of Pharmaceutical Innovation in Japan 8. The Process of Drug Discovery and Development 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index
Takuji Hara, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, Japan
'. . . this book represents a welcome addition to the small number
of works on innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. The case
studies give a valuable insight into the innovation process and
together with the extensive bibliography will form a valuable aid
to researchers specialising in this field.'
*Brian Higginson, R&D Management*
'. . . Hara has provided us with a series of extremely important
case studies. His research will be appreciated by the many
economists, historians, sociologists, and management scholars who
are trying to make sense out of the development of the modern
pharmaceutical industry and its role in the third industrial
revolution of our time.'
*Louis Galambos, Bulletin of the History of Medicine*
'It is an innovative book in a variety of ways. Only a small amount
of literature of the social studies of technology has dealt with
innovation in pharmaceuticals. In part, this is because
pharmaceutical companies are naturally wary of allowing outside
researchers too close to their innovation processes: it is an
information-sensitive business. So one of the great strengths of
Hara's book is the access he has achieved. It is also innovative in
its consideration of the pharmaceutical industry in Japan, but such
is the dearth of material of this kind on pharmaceuticals that even
the discussion of the UK cases is largely novel.'
*Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh, UK*
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