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Pharma: Shot in the arm needed

February 24, 2005 06:48 IST

The Indian pharmaceutical industry is highly fragmented with about 10,000 manufacturing units (300 in the organized sector). The top ten companies make up for

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more than third of the market. India accounts for about 8% of the world's pharma pie in volume terms, but only 1% in value terms.

Will the recently introduced Patent Regime change all that?