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Hospira Taiwan What is exciting about the Taiwanese market for Hospira today? Hospira is a US-based company, which used to be part of Abbott Laboratories. A major part of the portfolio for the company is devices, which is mainly driven by its Medication Management Systems (MMS) portfolio. The rest of the company’s…

National Taiwan University Hospital Could you start with an overview of the hospital’s capabilities and areas of focus in 2010? NTUH is a 2500 bed medical center and JCI accredited. We are a Centre of Excellence for clinical trials and clinical research in Asia Pacific. We ranked first in Taiwan and fifth in institutional…

Eli Lilly Taiwan Traditionally and historically, Lilly is very strong in the Asian region. The company has placed a great deal of emphasis on the region for many years. How does Taiwan fit into that Asian context for Lilly? What’s exciting in Taiwan for Lilly right now? In an Asian context, Taiwan has…

Taiwan Department of Health Paul Krugman, who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in economics, said that the Taiwanese health care system is the best in the world. Despite this, you are now drafting a second generation of legislation, so what are the issues that need to be addressed in this legislation? In any program…

Taiwan Food & Drug Administration In January 2010, the Taiwan FDA was newly created from four existing agencies. What was the vision behind the creation of this new organisation? What did the government want to achieve in its creation? Although all the administration work done today by the TFDA was already being done by the…

PAREXEL Taiwan Unlike many multinational CROs, PAREXEL decided to base its Asia Pacific operations in Taipei instead of Singapore. To what extent was this decision a result of Taiwan’s business environment and to what extent was it a result of previous business success? Taiwan’s business environment was an important factor. Taiwan produces…

Celgene Taiwan Could you please give our readers an overview of the importance of Taiwan for Celgene in a regional and a global context? What is attractive in Taiwan for Celgene? Celgene is very new entrant in the multinational context as a latecomer to the market. As a biopharmaceutical company it is…

Novo Nordisk Taiwan Novo Nordisk is one of the few pharmaceutical multinationals focused in one key therapeutic area. Perhaps you could start by telling our readers about how diabetes has evolved in Taiwan over the last few years, and what the situation is like today. The prevalence of diabetes is increasing as in…

GSK Taiwan Please tell our readers about the importance of GSK Taiwan within the context of the company’s global operations, and also what there is in Taiwan that makes it so attractive for GSK. The Asia Pacific region for GSK consists of South East Asia, Korea, Taiwan and Australia. Due to being…

Taiwan Intellectual property Office Please explain the factors that led to the creation of the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office, and its main activities today. For the Taiwanese government, intellectual property (IP) rights are very important, as they are one of the key factors to attracting foreign investment. As a result, for a number of…