Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2012
The historical development and economic impact of pharmaceuticals in the UK are nowadays reasonably well documented. That industry has become the most profitable and fast growing of the country's high-tech industries. Its member firms undertake more than one-fifth of the national research and development (R&D) activities, one half being carried out in Britain, and currently achieve a £2.4 billion favourable trade balance with the rest of the world.
1 While this is a summary of the paper given at the conference ‘The Future of Medical History’ in July 2010, the full paper is published as ‘The Veterinary Medicine Industry in Britain in the Twentieth Century’, Economic History Review forthcoming (DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00553.x). In the interests of brevity, we have therefore omitted listing sources used in footnote references here, and would instead direct interested readers to the full article.