In this Deloitte White Paper, cooperation is described as key to competition for biopharmaceutical companies and the reliance on a traditional, closed R&D model might stifle true innovation. The paper discusses how companies that adopt a cooperative, open innovation framework are likely to spur product development, speed time to market, reduce costs, and increase competitiveness, and ultimately deliver a three-fold increase in the probability of success (achieving marketing approval) when drugs are sourced via open innovation.
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