"No patents, no R&D jobs," pharma.be says

2 March 2009

A European study has underlined the significance of patent applications registered at the European Patent Office, in terms of R&D job creation. The pharma.be, Belgium's research-based drugmakers' group, noted that the country is in the top 10 nations in terms of requests per capita.

Half of Belgium's 78,000-strong R&D workforce is in the private sector, with about two-thirds (66%) of all companies applying for patent-protection for some of their activities, including pharmaceutical firms, which employ 5,600 of them.

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