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Nature 397, 457 (11 February 1999) | doi:10.1038/17156

German call to invest more in technology

Quirin Schiermeier1

German companies risk an erosion of their 20 per cent share of the world pharmaceutical market unless they invest more in new technology, according to a new report.The report — commissioned by the federal research ministry from six independent institutes for economic and innovation research — concludes that companies need to increase their investment in biochemistry, bioinformatics and combinatorial chemistry.