The earnest tone of the discussions at this year's Pharmaceutical Strategic Alliances (PSA) Conference held in New York City reflected an increasingly common assumption among industry executives and insiders: the drug industry's growth problem isn't a merely cyclical issue. Forecasts for flat or single-digit earnings growth are widely accepted. Worse, confidence in the industry's projections – once one of the sector's greatest investment assets – has disappeared. "The whole aura of predictability has melted away for Big Pharma," remarked Arnie Snider, General Partner, Deerfield Management. "It will take a while to get this back."
The fundamental cause, noted speaker after speaker, is declining R&D productivity.
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