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MANUFACTURING & R&D SUPPLY CHAIN

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

MANUFACTURING & R&D SUPPLY CHAIN

For manufacturing and R&D supply chain facilities, such as those involved in precision medicine or Contract Research or Manufacturing Organisations (CROs and CMOs), locational decisions are typically more operation-orientated. On the cost side, labour market factors including wages and access to talent, as well as real estate costs are often weighted heavily. Being focused on the delivery of products, access to potential consumers is also very relevant which, for many manufactures and operators along the R&D supply chain means being near a teaching hospital with whom they can work to deliver innovative drugs and treatments. Ecosystem factors are also generally prominent, with the supply of materials, the delivery of products and in the depth of the local labour pool all benefiting from agglomeration and clustering benefits.

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