Pasaje a la India (III):Defensa frente el "invasor"

India “must protect its drugmakers from foreign takeovers”
06 May 2009

India’s government has been told that it must do more to protect the nation’s drugmakers from the threat of takeover by multinational firms.

Since India introduced its new intellectual property regime on January 1, 2005, its drugmakers have become more vulnerable to such threats, according to the final report of a task force set up by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to propose ways to increase the nation’s drug exports.

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Moreover, third world countries are increasingly looking to India as an alternative source of affordable medicines to solve their growing healthcare costs and, with its significant advantages of low costs of innovation, capital requirements and running costs, plus its well-established manufacturing processes and R&D infrastructure, the nation is strategically well-position to emerge as the “health keeper” of the world, the report adds.

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