Pharmaceuticals — an information based industry

Abstract

The pharmaceutical industry is a high‐technology, high‐investment and high‐risk industry. It is also a highly competitive research‐based industry and a dedicated and demanding user of information. It follows that the industry is in the forefront of information science and information handling techniques which use the new information technologies, both with respect to handling internally generated data and externally published materials.

Citation

Haygarth Jackson, A.R. (1987), "Pharmaceuticals — an information based industry", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 39 No. 3, pp. 75-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051042