Pharmaceutical company spending on research and development and promotion in Canada, 2013-2016: a cohort analysis

Figures & data

Table 1 Spending on R&D^a and promotion as a percent of sales industry-wide

Table 2 Number of 50 most promoted drugs per company per year

Table 3 Spending on R&D^a and promotion as a percent of sales for companies with the most heavily promoted drugs

Fig. 1 Percent of sales spend on R&D* and promotion by number of companies. *Research and development

Table 4 Variation in promotion and research and development spending by individual company by year