Factors affecting pharmaceutical industry enforcements in Iran and selected countries

The pharmaceutical industry has a significant share in national production of the countries. Therefore, the present study aims to identify the main dimensions and components of enforcing the pharmaceutical industry by the illustration of selected countries to stand against economic shocks. This is a comparative study which was carried out in 2019. Compared Selected countries are separated into two main classifications. First category is referred to turkey with similar characteristics to Iran. The other group is consisted of pioneer countries in pharmaceutical industries. USA, Britain and Ireland. Data analysis was based on a framework analysis. Findings of the study indicated that Iran needs to allocate more funds to the R&D unit to obtain self-sufficiency and strengthening accommodated with building centralized infrastructures in which coordinates these centers. This will also act to avoid wastefulness. In this regard, Iran can idolize countries such as Ireland and Turkey as a model. Despite the sanctions and domestic issues Iran should make more efforts in this regard. Drug rules and regulations need to be updated correspondent to difficulties such as domestic and foreign factors.