Europe has Untapped Medical Innovation
The PharmaPhorum website noted that the ‘open innovation’ strategy is being pursued by all the big pharma companies – and now it’s simply a matter of who executes best on this approach. This is one of the boldest efforts in big pharma to create relationships with entrepreneurs, scientists and leading institutions and to help them advance their
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Collaborative Working in Farming
An article on the FarmingUK website noted that agri-tech giants like Bayer are embracing open innovation, both within their own businesses and throughout the wider industry. “It is a big mindset change,” admits Adrian Percy, head of research and development at Bayer Crop Science. “But it is such
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Opening Up Innovation
The pmlive website noted that the [pharma] industry is increasingly open to academic collaborations and alongside this a more radical step can be seen in pharma’s willingness to move beyond ‘not invented here’ and take part in ‘open innovation’ initiatives. The trend is
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The Changing Shape Of The Modern Workplace
An article on the Forbes website noted attempts to make workplaces more innovative. Many have focused around the open innovation methodology of creating touch-points whereby employees can mingle, collaborate and innovate with people from outside their organization. There are instances of this form of
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Open Innovation and Big Pharma
The PMLive website reported that there has been a major drive towards an open innovation model among big pharma companies, seeking to forge closer ties with small biopharma companies and academic groups in recognition that relying on in-house pharma R&D is no longer enough to remain competitive.
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GSK, Crick Institute Partner on Open R&D
The Drug Discovery and Development website reported that the Francis Crick Institute and GSK, the UK’s largest pharmaceutical company, are to partner on an open innovation collaboration exploring new avenues of medical research and drug discovery across a broad range of diseases. In the spirit of open
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Joel West on Open Innovation
The Keck Graduate Institute website reported that Joel West, Henry Chesbrough and Wim Vanhaverbeck recently published a new book, “New Frontiers in Open Innovation.” In an interview with the site Dr. West discusses the approach the three open innovation experts took to covering the extensive
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Managing Intellectual Property with Open Innovation
The IdeaPoke website noted that open innovation empowers new product development and has been the driving force of sustainable innovation for several companies over the decades. While it accelerates innovation and reduces time to market, open innovation poses a few challenges when it comes to managing
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Open Labs Key to Cracking Toughest Health Problems?
The Policy Innovations website noted that there’s now a growing consensus that the open innovation approach is key to tackling disease in the developing world. GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Open Lab has turned the traditional research and development (R&D) model of closed innovation—of companies
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Open Innovation Tackles NCDs in Africa
The Devex Impact website reported that to understand more about Africa’s increasing noncommunicable diseases (NCD) threat, we need to bring together the brightest scientific minds to work as a team rather than struggling alone to find answers. No single country in the region has enough researchers
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