How Far Can Big Pharma Collaboration Go? Much Further, Executives Say
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Big pharma collaborations and other new or once-rare models of business development can help companies ‘do more with less’, according to AstraZeneca’s and Merck’s heads of business development, who spoke at Elsevier’s Pharmaceutical Strategic Alliances conference.
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