Recently, there have been several consolidations in the economy, the biotech industry being one. With the creation of fewer \"Biotech giants worldwide\", will this lead to stronger monopoly power, thus potentially contributing to rising healthcare costs (prescription drugs), or is it a necessity of the industry to optimize R&D resources to more rapidly bring new, critical medicines to market? **PLEASE NOTE THE ANSWER CURRENTLY POSTED ON CHEGG IS INCORRRECT*** IT BEGINS WITH \"Biotechnology mergers and acquisitions can help the industrys fully integrated players to increase in size and market value, boost the emerging companies efforts to reach full integration or allow the start-ups to survive cyclical financial crises. M&A in the biotechnology sector (including inter-sector deals between the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies or intra-sector deals within the biotechnology sectors) serves three main purposes, where one company acquires another in order to increase pipeline productivity and innovation or aid the transition to become full integrated biopharmaceutical company (FIBCO) or a company merges equally with another to support product development, market expansion or sustainable profitability.\"\"\" THIS ANSWER IS INCORRECT. IF YOU WANT FULL POINTS PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION CORRECTLY! THANKS! Solution As it is always necessary for any industry to bring newer products into the market as per the needs of the consumer. Though this company has a monopoly over the market, it needs to have a research departmrment to know the current market requirements for grabbing the opeertunities as soon as possible. And as its a biotech company it must have R & D deparment to handle any critical situation because they have constant watch on market..