The Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry in China

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. The Chemical Industry in China

   1. The Global Chemical Industry

      • Gunter Festel

      Pages 3-8

   2. The Petrochemical Industry in China

      • Jörg Wuttke

      Pages 9-22

   3. Activities of European Chemical Companies in China

      • Heinz Mueller

      Pages 23-46

   4. Research and Development in China

      • Gunter Festel, Harald Pielartzik, Martin S. Vollmer

      Pages 47-52

   5. Chemical Industry Parks in China

      • Gunter Festel, Yong Geng

      Pages 53-62

   6. Trends in the Chinese Fine Chemicals Market — Opportunities and Threats for the European Fine Chemicals Industry

      • Dahai Yu

      Pages 63-71

   7. Chemicals for China's Chip Industry

      • Klaus Griesar

      Pages 73-88

3. The Pharmaceutical Industry in China

   1. China's Pharmaceutical Market: Business Environment and Market Dynamics

      • Michael Brueckner, Marc P. Philipp, Joachim E. A. Luithle

      Pages 91-107

   2. Developing the Pharmaceutical Business in China — The Case of Novartis

      • Angela Wang, Maximilian von Zedtwitz

      Pages 109-119

   3. China's Approach to Innovative Pharmaceutical R&D: A Review

      • David E. Webber

      Pages 121-132

   4. Foreign Direct Investment by Multinational Corporations in China — The Pharmaceutical Sector

      • Xiangdong Chen, Guido Reger

      Pages 133-147

   5. Competing in the Chinese Antibiotics Market — Cephalosporins 1982–2000

      • Gail E. Henderson, William A. Fischer

      Pages 149-156

4. The Experience of Successful European Companies in China

   1. Swimming Ahead of the Shoal — The History of BASF in Greater China

      • Andreas Kreimeyer

      Pages 159-170

   2. Establishing a Competitive Production Network in Asia

      • Otto Kumberger

      Pages 171-179

   3. Bayer — A Multinational Committed to China

      • Elmar Stachels

      Pages 181-188

   4. Bicoll — The First Sino-German Biotechnology Company

      • Kai Lamottke, Nicole Feling, Christian Haug

      Pages 189-198

   5. Ciba Specialty Chemicals in China — Global Direction and Local Expertise

      • Kuno Kohler

      Pages 199-210

   6. Degussa: Transforming the China Region

      • Eric Baden

      Pages 211-220

   7. A Toolbox for China — Lessons from the China Experience of Degussa Construction Chemicals

      • Boris Gorella, Christian Kober

      Pages 221-245

“Don’t miss out on China!” and “What are you doing about China?” Catch phrases like these are spreading among managers all over the world. Just take a brief look at the business class occupancy of flights from Europe, North America or Japan to major Chinese cities: This gives you a glimpse of how business people are attracted by steady growth rates of 6 percent to 10 percent. It also indicates how much attention is given to a market featuring 1.3 billion potential consumers and a government committed to rapidly changing the country from an agricultu- dominated developing country into one of the world’s economic powerhouses. Most of the global industrial players have had economic ties with China for decades already, but they were further strengthened after the country’s opening to the world in the early 1980s. Furthermore, China’s accession to the World Trade Or- nization is expected to catapult this already surging economy into another sphere of development.

• Biotech Industry
• Chemical Industry
• China
• Import
• Novartis
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• R & D
• Research & Development
• Toolbox
• business
• chemicals
• development

From the reviews:

"China, with its potential market of 1.3 billion consumers, has resurrected the western world’s stagnant economic outlook. … This is an interesting book on the global chemical industry and the business practices of multinational companies." (Helmut Hügel, Chemistry in Australia, December, 2005)

• Huenenberg, Switzerland

  Gunter Festel

• Vorstand Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany

  Udo Oels

• Vorstand BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, Germany

  Andreas Kreimeyer

• School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China

  Max Zedtwitz

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