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Fixing Biotech's Broken Business Model

By Julian Upton | Published: December 22, 2010
Despite some notable successes, the global biotech industry has fallen short of expectations. Strategic collaborations have been on the increase, but there is now a need for more co-operation using new collaboration models, writes Jo Pisani. The current business model on which biotech has relied is flawed. Due to poor rates of return, investment has dried [...]
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The Case for Specialty Medicines: Is Industry Credible, or Culpable?

By William Looney | Published: November 11, 2009
What’s so special about specialty? This was the question lurking below the surface in many of the presentations at a conference hosted by Pharm Exec’s sister organization, CBI, in Philadelphia last week. Now that the blockbuster era is fading under a wave of patent expirations, big pharma is pinning its hopes on the specialty category [...]
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