A survey of national R&D-driven health biotech sectors ranks Switzerland, Sweden and the United States as leading centers for R&D-driven biotech. John Hodgson and Deanna Schreiber-Gregory report.
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J.H. is managing director of communications Europe at Life Science Advisors. D.S.-G. is research statistician and data manager at Juxdapoze.
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Hodgson, J., Schreiber-Gregory, D. The Worldview national ranking of health biotech sectors. Nat Biotechnol 40, 821–828 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01349-4
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