The U.K. biotech sector likes to talk up its leading position among European countries in terms of funds raised and products in development, but Britain’s lead isn’t all that secure - recent data from consultancy EY show life science companies based in other European countries are almost as successful as U.K.-based ones at attracting investment and R&D.
In EY’s 2014 “State of the [U.K.] Nation” report, released earlier this month, Swiss companies were in fact just ahead of Britain in terms of the amount of venture capital...