RUDN Journal of Economics (Jun 2011)
The formation of regional pharmaceutical clusters in modern Russia
Abstract
The article substantiates the importance of development of the regional pharmaceutical clusters in such a geographically huge country like Russia in the context of the overall development of the national pharmaceutical market. Geographical localization of cluster's participants which includes the scientific institutions, pre-clinical and clinical base, modern manufacturing entities and the expert organizations, will contribute to reduce the time-consuming, as well as logistics costs and marketing communications costs that finally means the big affordability of medicinal agents for the country population.