{"id":22325,"date":"2025-12-23T07:25:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22325"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:25:39","slug":"singapores-biotech-strategy-will-benefit-from-collective-not-competitive-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22325","title":{"rendered":"Singapore\u2019s biotech strategy will benefit from collective, not competitive, thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Successful innovation requires a holistic risk-based approach beyond financial, infrastructure and manpower investments<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-container\">\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">IN AN interview with private-equity investor David Rubenstein, chief executive officer of Novartis Dr Vasant Narasimhan spoke about the potential and possibilities of pharmaceuticals in a fiercely competitive industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Rubenstein questioned Dr Narasimhan on whether constant drug patent expiry and the need to generate new portfolio of drugs is a good way to make a business. Dr Narasimhan acknowledged the \u201cconstant treadmill\u201d and the value of a company\u2019s replacement power, which requires strong research and development capabilities, as well as long-term thinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Few industries in the world are subject to such clockwork-style competitive advantage erosion, where businesses know the exact year in which generic drug sales will erode their revenues.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-btg-newsletter-component\" class=\"border-t border-gray-175 py-3\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-lucida text-xl font-medium italic leading-normal -tracking-5% text-gray-850\">Decoding Asia newsletter: your guide to navigating Asia in a new global order. <span class=\"inline border-none p-0 font-lucida text-inherit text-xl font-medium italic leading-normal !-tracking-5% text-verticals-btblue !underline outline-none\">Sign up here to get Decoding Asia newsletter.<\/span> Delivered to your inbox. Free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/opinion-features\/singapores-biotech-strategy-will-benefit-collective-not-competitive-thinking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful innovation requires a holistic risk-based approach beyond financial, infrastructure and manpower investments IN AN interview with private-equity investor David Rubenstein, chief executive officer of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}