The pharmaceuticals and chemical industries are often viewed as 'Sun Rise' industries, providing skilled jobs as well as technology transfer and other linkages into the local innovation system. Policy in India and elsewhere has also been favourable to these industries for their capacity to...

The article provides an overview of programs, plans, tools of scientific and technological, innovation and industrial policy aimed at creating and producing new drugs in China; it is substantiated that the Chinese government uses an integrated approach in the implementation of mechanisms to...