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 working behind closed doors and guarding the
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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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Challenge Winners to Help Eradicate Polio Globally
The Innocentive website reported that Innocentive, a leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, and Beyond Polio, an initiative of the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation and the investment firm Spencer Trask have announced the solutions of its first Innovation Challenge which sought
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Data Sharing Aids Fight Against Malaria
The journal Nature reports that in the hunt for drugs that target diseases in the developing world, ‘open innovation’ is creating a buzz. Pharmaceutical companies are making entire libraries of chemical compounds publicly available, allowing researchers to rifle through them for promising drug