Based on a series of interviews with managers of medical and pharmaceutical companies and analysis of special literature, the authors try to identify zones in which the full innovation cycle is occurring, from the creation of fundamentally new products to their full commercialization, and to...

The financial crisis of August 17, 1998, has created a unique situation in domestic industry. The operating conditions of virtually all business entities have been radically altered. The new "rules of the game" are being formed "as they go along," since the macro level is not providing the...