New Tokyo-based company Asajes Ventures is aiming to create a new financial risk-sharing product development model for companies, mostly from the West, looking to bring their late pipeline or commercialized molecules to Asia, specifically Japan and China.
Asajes Offers Up Innovative Partnering Model For Asia Development
Asajes Ventures sees itself as offering a unique new mixed business model of venture capital and local development activity for smaller Western companies looking to develop their product or pipeline assets in Japan and China, aided by new opportunities from a rapidly reforming regulatory environment.

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