Proposal for an innovating business model for supporting biotechnology companies, ecosystem and their founders
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5912/jcb820Keywords:
biotechnology, business model, paradigm, collaboration, resource allocationAbstract
The pharmaceutical industry has been revolutionized by the new biotechnology companies during the last years. Facing patent expirations, lack of innovation and depleting product pipelines, the important structures turned to the funding of small biotechnology companies aimed at research and intellectual property securization. Alliances are primordial in the current economic climate. The market growth was questioned for years, but biotechnology companies shifted to product-driven strategies and the market performance has been verified during the last decade. Researchers still face challenges in transforming their science into businesses. They need to be fully equipped, and accompanied towards the right objectives to ensure the sustainability of the market as a whole.References
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