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Table 1 Summarized overview of global innovation activities on drug development in pharmaceutical companies (July 2016 – June 2019)

From: Disease burden metrics and the innovations of leading pharmaceutical companies: a global and regional comparative study

 

All pharmaceutical companies (Number of drugs, (%))

Top 20 leading companies (Number of drugs, (%))

Percentage of top 20 companies

Total

10,550 (100)

2669 (100)

25.3%

Phase

 Discovery

1406 (13.3)

260 (9.7)

18.5%

 Preclinical

2979 (28.2)

275 (10.3)

9.2%

 Clinicals

144 (1.4)

7 (0.3)

4.9%

 Phase I

1794 (17)

523 (19.6)

29.2%

 Phase II

1936 (18.4)

482 (18.1)

24.9%

 Phase III

817 (7.7)

230 (8.6)

28.2%

 Pre-registration

168 (1.6)

46 (1.7)

27.4%

 Registered

146 (1.4)

37 (1.4)

25.3%

 Marketed

1070 (10.1)

754 (28.3)

70.5%

 N/A (Technology)

90 (0.9)

55 (2.1)

61.1%

Orphan drugsa

1076 (10.2)

355 (13.3)

33.0%

Biologic productsb

4905 (46.5)

1165 (43.6)

23.8%

  1. a Drugs being developed for rare diseases and have been designated as orphan drugs
  2. b Drugs being developed as biologic therapies