Big news in Japan’s pharma scene: AI is no longer a future concept; it’s a present game-changer for commercial teams. As Vishal Kapoor from Prospection puts it, “Predictive AI isn’t a future promise in the rapidly evolving Japanese data landscape…
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2017 Economic and Fiscal Policy Guidelines Likely to Be Tinged with MOF Color
The Cabinet Office, the secretariat for the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy (CEFP), is drawing up this year’s Basic Policy on Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform, which is expected to carry an array of policies that have been…
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