Norway's Pharmaceutical Revolution - Pursuing and Accomplishing Innovation in Nyegaard & Co., 1945-1997 (Hardcover)

The pharmaceutical revolution that gathered pace in the 1930s delivered a plethora of almost magical new drugs such as penicillin, streptomycin, cortisone, and the birth control pill. This revolution grew from academic-business relationships in five countries: USA, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, and France. Many other countries tried and failed to replicate this success, yet a handful of Scandinavia companies made important breakthroughs in a narrow band of specialities. This is the story of how one Norwegian company- Nyegaard & Co. -achieved international success from the 1970s onwards with a breakthrough product facilitating X-ray pictures of the soft tissues of the body. The company succeeded by harnessing research skills and creating scientific and business alliances abroad, building its own momentum step by step: the corporation as entrepreneur. It thereby broke with the conventional way a national medical ecosystem facilitated the crucial scientific progress. This is a story both of personal initiatives and great organizational transformations in several stages. In the 1950s, Nyegaard & Co. was a small hierarchical home market-oriented generics company. By the end of the 1990s, it had developed into a fairly large and multinational hierarchical company, preoccupied as much with shareholder value as scientific progress. It has also become a company that no longer had the same ability to innovate as before and therefore became merged into another one.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2022
Authors:	Knut Sogner (Professor of economic history)
Dimensions:	242 x 162 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-286900-5
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Manufacturing industries > Pharmaceutical industries Books > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Promotions
LSN:	0-19-286900-0
Barcode:	9780192869005

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