Going Back to School
Executive Summary
Often started by the academic inventors or their laboratory acolytes, biotechs offer equity participations (to universities and researchers) as well as focused attention to their inventions. As large companies have steadily invested in and improved their own discovery operations, in particular going further into the basic research which is the stuff of academic labs, they find themselves positioned to exploit university research in a more focused way-and thus are more willing than ever to do universi