Abstract
An introductory and short explanation is summarized here for following five papers from the U.S.A., Germany, India, China, and Japan. Main topics include the reason of attention to biopharmaceutical industry, the global trend of commercialization of life science, the characteristics of advanced countries as the U.S.A. and Europe and of emerging countries as India and China, and Japan's trend of number of biotech start-ups, business areas, and venture capital.