Research:Big pharma

Research

Variants and synonyms

• Big Pharma

Definition/description

Traditional large, multinational pharmaceutical companies (big pharma) and small-sized regional or national pharma companies are not included in this chapter, except insofar as how their dealings with SMEs have impacted their own pipelines.

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B008045044X00016X?via%3Dihub

Examples

Big Pharma and small biotech are increasingly outsourcing the late stage development and manufacturing of their biologics.

Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19420862.2016.1227665

But it is encouraging that at last so many different approaches are progressing to the clinic, with investment from both big pharma and biotech.

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt1207-1375

Keyness

>1000

Note

There are 74 results in total in the concordance search for “big pharma”. In the corpus “big pharma” does not carry the “conspiratorial” meaning but rather it describes a mode of operation and size of certain pharmaceutical companies.