A TECHNOLOGY BET
A TECHNOLOGY BET
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DOI:
10.1021/cen-v086n029.p030
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发表时间:
2008
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L. Jarvis
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作者:
L. Jarvis
DSM’S PHARMACEUTICAL products business has weathered many ups and downs in its decades of serving the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Now it’s in an environment where drug approvals are at a longtime low, competition in the custom manufacturing industry is tough, and the pressure to lower the cost of health care is acute. The business is banking on its technology base to survive, and even thrive. Last fall, DSM revisited the five-year growth strategy it laid out in 2005 and vowed to accelerate its transition into a life and materials sciences company. A major component of that strategy is to exploit its biotechnology platform across the markets it serves. For example, DSM’s expertise in enzymatic conversions can be used to generate biofuels, synthesize complex active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), or develop functional food ingredients. One beneficiary of that biotechnology platform is, of course, the company’s pharmaceutical products business. With roughly $780 million in sales last year, ...