After an extraordinary year that saw demand patterns and the supply chain upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a major merger that has transformed one of the global off-patent industry’s biggest players, Generics Bulletin’s Top 50 has once again seen significant changes.

Pharmaceutical companies are ratcheting up voluntary efforts to control discharges of antimicrobials from their plants and those of their active pharmaceutical ingredient suppliers so they won’t contribute to antimicrobial resistance. But will it be enough to fend off regulation in countries like India?

Seasoned business developer and investor Oern Stuge has worked with the very biggest in medtech in a career spanning over three decades. He bemoans the harm that European policymakers are doing to the one-time capital of the world of medtech innovation. But on the other hand, he knows that the best ideas have a habit of succeeding, regardless of geography.

Seasoned business developer and investor Oern Stuge has worked with the very biggest in medtech in a career spanning over three decades. He bemoans the harm that European policymakers are doing to the one-time capital of the world of medtech innovation. But on the other hand, he knows that the best ideas have a habit of succeeding, regardless of geography.