Biotechnology companies tend to be
smaller than pharmaceutical companies and more driven by research and development.
Biotechnology companies tend to be
smaller than pharmaceutical companies -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
Founded more
than two centuries ago by
small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest
pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.
Meanwhile, aggressive
smaller pharmaceutical companies like Valeant openly brag about how they spend less
than 3 % on R&D and 3 % on taxes.
So, I took a job as a research scientist in the analytical lab of a
smaller chemistry - driven, discovery - based
pharmaceutical company located in Vancouver, B.C. With fewer
than 100 employees and no products on the market, it couldn't have been further from the formal corporate work environment I was accustomed to at a multinational company.
Each firm is relatively
small, but with growing global reach: Novozymes (# 1) has 6,000 employees, Alexion
Pharmaceuticals (# 5) has 2,800 employees, and Moderna Therapeutics (# 7) has more
than 250 employees.
Most Class III devices do require clinical testing, but the clinical trials are typically
smaller, much less costly, and shorter in duration
than those required for
pharmaceuticals.
I scour more
than 200 advisories and research reports to select the top recommendations including growth stocks, value stocks, technology,
small - caps, biotech,
pharmaceuticals, funds, ETFs and more.
While the winners in the best
pharmaceutical sales companies to work for category are all large companies, it's interesting to note that nearly 75 % of pharma respondents would actually prefer to work for a
small or medium - sized company (fewer
than 10,000 employees).