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However, while spending on pharmaceutical research and development continues to increase, the number of drugs coming through to marketing approval is falling off. With many blockbuster drugs due to go off patent in the next few years, it is thought that only just over half of pharmaceutical companies have pipelines robust enough to offset the losses caused by the loss of market share to generics and biosimilars.
New technologies – even non-obvious, novel ones deserving of a patent – continuously build on published science and research. Developing a new drug is expensive and time-consuming, and at its heart pharmaceutical research and development relies on medicinal chemistry from academic libraries, both for target selection and the up-scaling of manufacturing technology. This prior art supports and informs research and patent applications, and there is a need to stay compliant when citing and using works.
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