Journal of Business Chemistry May 2008

Although chemical firms also feel the omnipresent demand for growth and profitability, they often lack the internal ability to develop successful new products or services. While having already largely exhausted classical levers for reducing costs and improving efficiency and in spite of their dependency on the constant generation of innovations, they are developing fewer really […]

Market participants expect that transactions will continue to play a significant role in the chemical industry since the industry is still fragmented in many segments. Professional transactions in the chemical industry include Due Diligence processes with a focus on topics specific for the chemical industry. The Financial Due Diligence focuses on the determination of future […]

Abstract Nowadays entrepreneurship has become an unavoidable issue. Given its documented relevance for regions’ and countries’ economic growth, increasingly governments, educators, and scientists try to uncover the determinants of entrepreneurship seeking ultimately to promote entrepreneurial skills amongst our youngest. Notwithstanding such trend, studies targeting entrepreneurial potential among students, namely university students are not abundant. In […]

Several hundred thousand people are already employed in biotechnology and gene technology in Germany. In the future, this industry will continue to create jobs. By 2020, the biotechnology industry will generate work and wealth for more people than are currently employed in the entire chemical industry. The study “Biotechnology in Germany Employment Potential and Competitiveness” […]

The pharmaceutical industry is at a crossroads. In 2010, it faces one of the biggest waves of proprietary patent expirations yet lacks a viable pipeline to replace these soon to be generics. Furthermore, R&D expenditures have more than doubled from 1995 to 2006 without commensurate increase in NMEs (new molecular entities, Martinez and Goldstein, 2007). […]