JCB, Volume 25, Number 4, 2020 Commentary Vol.25 No. 4 (2020) What’s Coming Next in Transformative Innovation? Arthur A Boni The idea in short. Contiguous with the publication of this special edition focused on the “Promises and Challenges of Transformative Innovation”, it is appropriate that we announc Commentary Vol.25 No. 4 (2020) Healthcare Pilgrim's Progress Peter Pitts Progress is both a noun (forward or onward movement toward a destination) and a verb (to move forward or onward in space or time). 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This can Article Vol.25 No. 4 (2020) Lessons from Sovaldi: Fueling Innovation While Ensuring Access Marc Watrous The case of Gilead Science’s hepatitis C therapy Sovaldi is a notable precursor to the larger debate over drug pricing, providing some important lessons, at a time when a new gener From the Boardroom Vol.25 No. 4 (2020) The “Art of Collaborations”: Understanding the Anatomy of Transformative Transactions in Biopharma Arthur A Boni This article highlights the factors that drive successful collaborations and partnerships that underlie accessing transformative technologies, and financially sharing of value created thr From the Boardroom Vol.25 No. 4 (2020) Commercializing the new frontier in DNA writing: Enzymatic synthesis Michael J. 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Aiming at this problem, this paper puts forwar Original Article Vol.25 No. 4 (2020) The vocabulary of agriculture semi-popularization articles in English: A corpus-based study Qiaoli Quan Based on the obtained research results, this paper makes an in-depth study of English vocabulary interpretation retrieval technology, and proposes a corpus based automatic retrieval techn