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Potential entrants
Threat of
new entrants
Suppliers Buyers
Rivalry among
Bargaining power
existing firms
of buyers
Threat of substitute
products or services
Substitutes
Porter’s Five Forces in Detail
Substitutes
Available Alternatives
Switching Costs
Suitability of Alternatives
Price Sensitivity
Potential Substitutes
Supplier Concentration
Substitute Supplies
Switching costs
Threat of Forward
Integration
Buyer Information
Suppliers
The Competitive Force of Potential Entry
✔ Economies of scale.
✔ Capital requirements.
Entry Easy
Key to entry is a thorough
knowledge of a specific
disease
One or two discoveries is
enough to be successful
Patents easily overcome
Suppliers Strong
Hospitals/Government
Rivalry Intense
Buyers Strong
Suppliers have power have considerable
in that licensing of 1,100 firms in the USA buying power
marketing rights is 82% of firms unprofitable Doctors/Pharmacies
common 76% have < 50 employees are rarely price
73% of firms have Only 30 companies have conscious
marketing alliances more than 300 Patients have very
employees low price sensitivity
Substitutes High
Biotech products typically
have cheaper chemical
product alternatives
Patents easily overcome so
biotech alternatives are
available
Driving Forces in the Five Forces Model
Political
Economic
Potential entrants
Threat of
new entrants
Suppliers Buyers
Rivalry among
Bargaining power
existing firms
of buyers
Threat of substitute
products or services
Substitutes
Social
Technological
Pressures for Evolution of the Five Forces
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