Van Egeraat, Chris and Barry, Frank (2009) The Irish pharmaceutical industry over the boom period and beyond. Irish Geography, 42 (1). pp. 23-44. ISSN 0075-0778

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Abstract

The pharmaceutical industry was one of the strongest performing sectors of the Celtic Tiger era. During the past two decades, employment growth in the sector has been strong and continuous, even when, in recent years, employment in other manufacturing sectors has been contracting. Although positive in itself, from a dynamic regional development perspective it is important to explore the qualitative changes in the types of activities that are conducted in Ireland. Adopting a global production network approach, the paper examines Ireland’s changing role in global production networks within the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on the different components of manufacturing and research and development (R&D). The analysis shows that Ireland’s involvement in manufacturing has shifted in the direction of relatively higher value generating activities. Within R&D, although the level of value creation has increased substantially, Ireland’s involvement nonetheless remains concentrated in the (relatively) lower value generating activities of the global R&D network. In addition, the sector remains strongly dominated by foreign companies so that a large share of the created value is not captured within Ireland

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The definitive version of this article is available at DOI: 10.1080/00750770902815604
Keywords:	R&D; pharmaceutical; Ireland; global production networks;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA
Item ID:	6138
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/00750770902815604
Depositing User:	Dr. Chris Van Egeraat
Date Deposited:	21 May 2015 15:28
Journal or Publication Title:	Irish Geography
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Refereed:	Yes
Funders:	Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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