Rethinking Pharmaceutical R&D: Will New Strategies Yield a Pipeline Payoff?

Decision Resources
September 18, 2009
24 Pages - SKU: DECR2444609
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Introduction

Can radical changes to the structures and strategies of pharmaceutical R&D operations-such as creating more entrepreneurial environments modeled upon biotech companies-increase their productivity? Many major companies are reorganizing the research branches of their businesses and fi nding creative ways to partner with biotech companies and with each other to access or acquire promising technologies and pipelines. Their goal is to reinvigorate R&D and combat the effects of patent expirations, generics competition, and other industry pressures.

Questions Answered in This Report
  • In recent years, drug developers have invested heavily in various R&D technologies. Is this investment
  • increasing R&D productivity? What technology strategies are most promising? What new approaches are pharmaceutical companies using to access enabling technologies for drug discovery?
  • Pharmaceutical companies are seeking to reinvigorate R&D organizations to improve productivity.
  • What steps are leading companies taking to change R&D? What structures and strategies have already been implemented within Big Pharma R&D organizations? Can pharmaceutical companies replicate the innovation of biotech companies by reforming R&D?
  • Biotech companies are an important source of novel technologies and drug candidates. How do acquisitions
  • of and collaborations with biotech companies fi t into Big Pharma's R&D strategies? How can companies use business development activities to build up technological capabilities and pipelines?
  • Several Big Pharma companies are charting new territory in early-stage pharma-pharma dealmaking.
  • Which companies have recently formed innovative partnerships that include early-stage development? What are the key features of these arrangements? How do these ventures meet the strategic needs of both partners?
Scope
  • Technology strategies: Use of high-throughput technologies and R&D productivity, biologics
  • platforms, pharma-pharma ventures for enabling technology development.
  • Organizational structures and strategies: Restructuring R&D, emulating biotech, case
  • studies of R&D reorganization.
  • Building R&D through business development: M&As, collaborations, R&D strategies.
  • Pharma-pharma partnering: Strategic alliances among Big Pharma companies, Phase I
  • codevelopment collaboration, therapeutic area joint venture.
  • Outsourcing R&D: China, India, potential advantages and disadvantages.
  • Outlook for pharmaceutical R&D: Changing business models, personalized medicine,
  • pursuing novel targets, collaboration, high-throughput strategies, translational medicine.
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