V voprosakh, kasayushchikhsya razvitiya farmatsevticheskoy promyshlennosti, nel"zya oboytis" bez izucheniya territorial"nykh aspektov eye funktsionirovaniya. Izuchenie i opisanie prostranstvennogo risunka i provedenie ee rayonirovaniya pozvolyayut ponyat" mnogie zakonomernosti razvitiya farmatsevtiki, v t.ch. vliyanie territorial"nykh faktorov na ekonomiku farmatsevticheskoy promyshlennosti. Uchyet etikh faktorov, k primeru, vazhen v analize konkurentosposobnosti otrasli v predelakh krupneyshikh mirovykh regionov, stran, i na bolee nizkikh administrativnykh urovnyakh. V dannoy rabote vyyavlenye klyuchevye tekhniko-ekonomicheskie osobennosti otrasli, proveden istoriko-geograficheskiy analiz farmatsevticheskoy promyshlennosti, provedena tipologiya firm v otrasli, otsenen uroven" razvitiya farmatsevtiki po stranam Zapadnoy Evropy. V kachestve itoga bylo provedeno rayonirovanie farmatsevticheskoy promyshlennosti i vydeleno 14 osnovnykh arealov i 3 krupneyshikh tsentra otrasli. Po rezul"tatam rayonirovaniya byla sozdana karta territorial"noy struktury farmatsevticheskoy promyshlennosti Zapadnoy Evropy. Kniga napisana dlya spetsialistov v oblasti ekonomicheskoy geografii i geografii promyshlennosti, a takzhe rabotnikov farmatsevticheskogo biznesa.