India's telecom firm Reliance Jio topped the list, followed by US-based pharmaceuticals firm Merck and Bank of America.
Whether it is vehicles, banking, technology, pharmaceuticals or food processing, multinational supply chains depend on multinational labour forces.
The danger for tech is that it ends up like the pharmaceuticals industry, which has complained for years about a supposedly risk-averse regulatory system that adds huge costs and delays to new drugs that might offer benefits.
But patents based on chemistry and biology are in decline, including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
There is a wide range of products for which mature models are needed such as the travel industry, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and even high fashion.
The burst of financing is part of a wider push by China's pharmaceuticals industry to move beyond cheap copycat drugs into higher-value products, in keeping with Beijing's ambitions to foster a more innovative economy.
The aircraft can carry up to 15 tons of cargo and in addition to passengers will transport key imports to Panama, including pharmaceuticals, machine products and electronics.
The panel, in a 13 to 3 vote, recommended the approval of Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' drug, alirocumab.
Northeastern University holds a patent on the method of producing drugs and licensed the patent to a private company, NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge, Mass.
It was the star in a class of new pharmaceuticals known as S.
