{"product_id":"norways-pharmaceutical-revolution-pursuing-and-accomplishing-innovation-in-nyegaard-co-1945-1997","title":"Norway's Pharmaceutical Revolution","description":"The pharmaceutical revolution that gathered pace in the 1930s delivered a plethora of almost magical new drugs such as penicillin, streptomycin, cortisone, and the birth control pill. This revolution grew from academic-business relationships in five countries: USA, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, and France. Many other countries tried and failed to replicate this success, yet a handful of Scandinavia companies made important breakthroughs in a narrow band of specialities. This is the story of how one Norwegian company-- Nyegaard \u0026amp; Co. --achieved international success from the 1970s onwards with a breakthrough product facilitating X-ray pictures of the soft tissues of the body. The company succeeded by harnessing research skills and creating scientific and business alliances abroad, building its own momentum step by step: the corporation as entrepreneur. It thereby broke with the conventional way a national medical ecosystem facilitated the crucial scientific progress. This is a story both of personal initiatives and great organizational transformations in several stages. In the 1950s, Nyegaard \u0026amp; Co. was a small hierarchical home market-oriented generics company. By the end of the 1990s, it had developed into a fairly large and multinational hierarchical company, preoccupied as much with shareholder value as scientific progress. It has also become a company that no longer had the same ability to innovate as before and therefore became merged into another one.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54021265391960,"sku":null,"price":106.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/norways-pharmaceutical-revolution-pursuing-and-accomplishing-innovation-in-nyegaard-co-1945-1997","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}