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Today Dr David Torstensson presented the findings of the 2021 Global Rule of Law and Business Dashboard at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington D.C.

Titled Building Blocks for Economic Recovery the Dashboard offers the business community, governments, policymakers and stakeholders across the world an innovative, empirical tool to measure and understand the particular needs of the business community within a rule of law context. What are the issues that are important to business? What is currently being measured internationally? And what ...

Pugatch Consilium and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launch the 9^th edition of the International IP Index

Last week saw the launch of the ninth edition of the International IP Index. Since 2012 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s International IP Index has provided an important industry perspective on the IP standards that influence both long- and short-term business and investment decisions. The Index is a unique and continuously evolving instrument. Not only does it assess the state of the international IP ...

Yesterday Professor Pugatch spoke to an audience of Swedish life sciences stakeholders on the EU’s capacity to compete in the global life sciences innovation race, at an event organized in Stockholm by Bayer Sweden in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute Holding.

Professor Pugatch provided an evidence-based analysis of the EU’s performance in attracting life sciences investment as compared to the US and emerging Asian players, and reflected on the ongoing shifts in life sciences innovation capacities at the global level.

In which ...

In the global competition for biopharmaceutical investment policy environments either enable or hinder an economy’s capacity to compete. Today who is winning this race and who is trailing? What aspects of individual economies’ environments are providing momentum and what is holding them back? And ultimately, how can governments improve their competitiveness and secure a larger piece of global biomedical investment?

To answer these questions we turned to biopharmaceutical country executives, who are at the forefront of understanding how different aspects of ...

This week I am having the pleasure of attending the 2019 BIO International Convention hosted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The biggest global event of its kind, this international convention brings together stakeholders from across the biotechnologies. Whether it be from the health, agricultural or industrial sector, anyone who is anyone in biotech is in Philadelphia this week.

Every year I come to the Convention I am struck by the sheer growth in numbers. More participants; more international delegations; more interest in biotech. ...