Setembro 2017 vol. 4 num. 2 - II Encontro Nacional de Economia Industrial e Inovação

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Technical Change and the Incorporation of Biotechnology in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Technical Change and the Incorporation of Biotechnology in the Pharmaceutical Industry

MATOS, Murilo Montanari de ; QUEIROZ, Sérgio Robles Reis de ;

Artigo Completo:

A indústria farmacêutica, ao longo de sua história, tem enfrentado inúmeras mudanças e desafios. Atualmente o setor passa por uma crise de produtividade em suas atividades de P&D. Este fato coloca uma série de questionamentos importantes, para o escopo deste estudo destacam-se dois: Como a indústria tem lidado com esta crise? As atitudes do setor trazem novas mudanças ou dinâmicas a este mesmo? A resposta que este artigo propõe é também o argumento que se procura defender, que é: a solução tentada pela indústria farmacêutica é tanto tecnológica quanto organizacional e esta solução reside fora das fronteiras da firma, sendo assim, as grandes empresas farmacêuticas estão usando estratégias, especialmente as aquisições de pequenas empresas de biotecnologia, para incorporar novas tecnologias que, em tese, vão aumentar a taxa inovativa das grandes empresas. Para se conseguir o objetivo proposto, este trabalho propõe combinar uma pesquisa bibliográfica focada na literatura econômica e na literatura especializada nas técnicas usadas para se desenvolver novas drogas para que se observe a evolução das atividades de P&D. Ademais, alguns dados importantes serão apresentados para sustentar algumas afirmações. Como conclusão, o artigo mostra que a evolução das atividades de P&D criou uma necessidade, nas grandes empresas farmacêuticas, que fez a incorporação de pequenas empresas de biotecnologia uma estratégia recorrente.

Artigo Completo:

The pharmaceutical industry has undergone several changes and challenges, nowadays the industry is facing a R&D productivity crises. A series of questions arise from this fact, two of it can be highlighted as important for this study that are: how the industry is dealing with this crises? Does it bring new features to the sector? The answer that this article proposes it is also our argument, that is: the solution sought by the industry is both technological and organizational and it resides outside the large pharmaceutical enterprise’s borders, therefore, those companies are using strategies, especially acquisitions of small biotech enterprises to incorporate new technologies that, arguably, will increase the large enterprise’s innovative output. Therefore this article objective is to prove the argument. In order to achieve the objective proposed this work proposes to combine bibliographic research on the economic literature and the specialized literature on drug discovery techniques to describe this activity evolution, in addition, some important data will be present to sustain the assertions made. As a conclusion the article shows that the R&D activities evolution has created a biotechnology trajectory, in the pharmaceutical companies, that made the incorporation of small biotech enterprises a recurrent strategy.

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Palavras-chave: biotecnologia, indústria farmacêutica, mudança técnica, competências, aquisições,

Palavras-chave: biotechnology, pharmaceutical industry, technical change, competences, acquisitions,

DOI: 10.5151/enei2017-06

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MATOS, Murilo Montanari de; QUEIROZ, Sérgio Robles Reis de; "Technical Change and the Incorporation of Biotechnology in the Pharmaceutical Industry", p. 92-109 . In: . São Paulo: Blucher, 2017.
ISSN 2357-7592, DOI 10.5151/enei2017-06

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