The Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical industry

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In the beginning, pharmacists developed new products in their back shop. Industrialization started a century ago, with the universal exposition where scientists wanted to find new processes and develop their market. Moreover, the two World Wars led to significant growth in this particular market. Thus, following this improvement in the pharmaceutical industry, overall healthcare got better. It meets the demands for health, food, clothing and many others. Nowadays, Switzerland is one of the biggest pharmaceutical product producers all around the world. In fact, this industry has started thanks to the textile industry which needs a lot of artificial colorants. That is why, after a long time of colorant production, Switzerland has taken the opportunity to make pharmaceutical products. Thus, in in the first part we will present a brief outline about the Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical industry and in the second part we will analyze the sources of competitive advantages of this sector.

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[...] The chemical and pharmaceutical industry is a highly dynamic sector in Swiss. From 1980-2001 its production registered an average annual growth of while the other industry has only increased by Additionally, between 2007-2008 the Swiss medicine market grew by The chemical and pharmaceutical industry's share in total Swiss exports has continuously increased since 1980. The Swiss's exportations of pharmaceutical products have highly risen in 2007, generating more than 51 billion CHX and thus representing of all the exportation. Between 1980 and 2000, exportations by the chemical and pharmaceutical industry increased by an average of 13% annually, whereas, the annual export growth of all sectors was only about 10%. [...]

[...] The Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical industry At the beginning, pharmacists developed new products in their back shop. The industrialization has started half past one century ago with the universal exposition where scientists wanted to find new processes and develop their market. Moreover, the two World Wars led to significant growth in this particular market. Thus, following to this improvement in the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare overall got better. It meets the demands for health, food, clothing and many others. Nowadays, Switzerland is one of the biggest pharmaceutical product producers all around the world. [...]

[...] Thus, Switzerland has adopted a policy of innovation, advocating the high quality care. Actually, there are few differences between the international and Switzerland regulation. The first concerns the patent law. Actually, compared to European patent law, which authorizes parallel imports between the member states, Swiss law is more complete. The second is the price control. Thus, prices of the Swiss drugs are adjusted more and more towards those of their European reference countries. However, compared to the international level, the Swiss prices are regulated relatively little. [...]

[...] That is important, is the fact that there is a strong collaboration between the academic and business sectors. That is ensures that most of this research are translated into marketable products and processes. Besides, the worldwide marketing is an integral part of the production of specific product. In fact, in 2007, the ten most important companies have spent 6.2 billion CHF, whereas in the time, their turnover was 2.5 billion CHF in Swiss. This gap can be filled if part of the sales profits made abroad is transferred to Switzerland. [...]

[...] So, Switzerland is mostly known for is famous rail network, his density is one of the most incredible in the world, this network counts 122 km on average of track for every 1000 as europe count just 46 km on average of track for every 1000km². This network has transported 60 million tonnes of goods and has carried 285 million passengers. This way of transport is essantial for the european market. However,air transport contributes in a essential way to ameliorate service and attraction of the Swiss economic place, the bigger Swiss airport is at Kloten, just outside Zurich. And they are two other, one in Geneva, and another in Bâle. skilled labour,research and technological knowledge: Switzerland is an important research site. [...]