India’s Dearth of Drug R&D Investment Creates Innovation Bottleneck
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Venture capital investment in India in first quarter 2009 down nearly 60 percent from same period a year ago; average deal size also shrinks.
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