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I thank the respondents who answered queries, B. Gayathri and Meeru Pai for assistance, Philip Anderson for discussion, and Olaf Andersen, Rakesh Basant and Upinder Bhalla for comments. I am grateful for discussions with Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (CEO, Biocon), who affirmed the classification of specific companies. Financial support from the Wadhwani Foundation, the Government of Karnataka and ICICI Bank and institutional support from N. Yathindra is gratefully acknowledged. In regard to competing financial interests, my employer, the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, incubates companies and conducts courses for executives and other employees of the biotech industry for which it charges fees.
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Saberwal, G. New pharma-biotech company formation in India. Nat Biotechnol 24, 499–501 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0506-499b
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