Italy’s Pharmaceutical Landscape

S.Matsumoto

Pharmaceutical Business in Italy

Companies are located in Northern Italy.
Milan is the high-density business area in pharmaceuticals.
Rome follows Milan. Other regions in the North-Italy spreads out.

Employment

Numbers of Workforce

Italy has the second place of labour population in pharmaceutical sector in Europe.

Female Workforce

Numbers of Female Workforce in the European Pharmaceutical Sector in 2023

Italy is the 4th largest country with female workforce in the pharmaceuticals sector.
44.6 thousand workforce contribute for the Italian pharmaceutical sector.

Productivity

Italy is placed at the 10th.
Nordic and Western European countries are ranked in on the personal productivity.

Global pharmaceutical exports

Italy is the largest country to export the medicament products across the world.

Italy among the key European countries

Apart from Belgium, Italy exports value-added medicament products steadily.

Trade performance

In the medicament sector, Italy grows trading performance year by year.
Italy has financially positive aspects on trade balance.

Innovation

Patent

Italy is ranked at the 9th place for the average annual numbers of patent.
In the world wide, Italy performs well and steadily.

AI Usages in Pharmaceuticals

In Italy, over 90% of companies use AI tech for their business application.
The half of companies apply AI for production processes and workflow automation.
On the other hands, AI is not popular at the finance, marketing & sales, and R&D sectors.

Conclusion

Italy has competitive performances in pharmaceutical sectors across the world as well as Europe.
Improving productivity and increasing numbers of patents are the points of future growth.
For further competitive growth, the innovative AI integration for pharmaceutical business and R&D work would raise up the Italian pharmaceutical industry.

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