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Japan Economic Package to Call for Boosting Innovation for Next-Gen Biologics
Japan’s new economic stimulus package will embrace measures to beef up drug discovery capabilities for next-generation biopharmaceuticals and call for the creation of a tax relief system for intellectual property, dubbed “innovation box.” Related statements were newly added in the…
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