Home I Business Resources I Business Guides & Reports
The global biotechnology industry delivered solid top- and bottom-line growth in 2010, with the industry achieving aggregate profitability for the second year in a row. Yet funding for research and development has grown increasingly scarce for the vast majority of firms in the sector, which tend to be pre-commercial stage companies that depend on years of funding to support drug development. This has placed new pressure on the traditional biotech business model, and may reshape how companies pursue R&D in the future, according to Beyond borders: global biotechnology report 2011, Ernst & Young’s 25th annual report on the biotech industry.