Life Sciences Statistics 2011
UNITED KINGDOM
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Status of the Sector
605 Total Biotechnology Companies 173 Biotech - Therapeutics 379 Biotech – R&D Services 53 Biotech - Other
>34'000 Employees >1'000 R&D Employees 84% Percentage of SME's 7% Percentage of Companies Publicly Owned
GBP 290m Financing / Capital Raised in 2010 154 Products Available for Out-licensing
Source: www.biotechgate.com
Key Activities of Biotechnology Companies
AgroBio 1%
Bioinformatics and
Bioelectronics 4%
Contract Research and Manufacturing
17%
Cosmetics 1%
Diagnostics and Analytical
Services 20%Drug Delivery
4%Environment
1%Food and
Nutraceuticals 1%
Genomics and Proteomics
7%
Industrial Biotechnology
1%
Other Services and Suppliers
25%
Therapeutics 17%
Veterinary 1%
Source: www.biotechgate.com
Biotechnology Companies in the UKBreakdown by subcategory based on 1031 entries by 605 companies
Biotechnology Company Size
1-10:21%
11-50:44%
51-250:20%
>2506%
Source: www.biotechgate.comSource: www.biotechgate.com
Size of Biotechnology Companies in the UK(by number of employees)
Company Foundation Timeline
5 915 12 13 9
4 7 5 3 3
16
20
19
11 12
7 16 127
2 3
3
2
3
12
1
1
05
10152025303540
Biotechnology - Therapeutics Biotechnology / R&D Services Biotechnology - other
Source: www.biotechgate.com
Company Foundations in the UK(by year)
Company Ownership
Private / independent
73%
Public 7%
Subsidiary 20%
Source: www.biotechgate.com
Public, Private and Subsidiary Companies in the UK
Sources of Company Foundations
Independent foundation
47%
Management buy-out (MBO)
1%Merger
2%
Spin-off from company
3%
Spin-off from public institution /
NPO 3%
Spin-off from university
16%
Subsidiary 22%
Other 6%
Company Foundations in the UK(by source of foundation)
Source: www.biotechgate.com
Products in the Pipeline
174
70
88
27
0 50 100 150 200
Discovery & Preclinical
Phase I
Phase II
Phase III
Source: www.biotechgate.com
UK Biotechnology Pipeline
5 Largest Therapeutic Biotech Company Financing Rounds
Company Date Currency Amount (millions) Type
Archimedes Pharma Limited 02.03.2010 GBP 65 Equity - Later stage Syntaxin Ltd 11.11.2010 GBP 29 Equity - Later stage Oxford Immunotec 30.04.2010 USD 26 Equity - Later stage Convergence Pharmaceuticals 04.10.2010 GBP 22.4 Equity - Start-up Kymab Limited 19.07.2010 GBP 20 Equity - First stage
Source: www.biotechgate.com
Biotechnology in Selected Countries
Austria Canada France Germany Italy Switzerland U.K.
Biotech companies 90 572 348 780 561 310 605
Therapeutic biotech companies 27 148 80 113 66 84 173
New companies founded in 2010 3 1 2 2 - 4 6
Companies founded 2001 - 2010 41 128 128 212 134 122 199
% of companies with <10 employees 26% 29% 30% 25% 25% 33% 21%
Biotech products in development 74 332 264 270 130 217 359
% publicly listed companies 2% 18% 5% 3% 2% 5% 7% Source: www.biotechgate.com
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