Building a consulting business takes experience, advance preparation, and marketing yourself, for starters.
By Panos P. Constantinides
The pharmaceutical and biotech industry, like other industries, is undergoing constant changes, such as mergers and acquisitions, cost containment, and outsourcing with accompanied staff relocation and layoffs. Hence, self-employment is becoming an attractive proposition: starting a new business, either an R&D company or a service organization that includes consulting.