By Roger Longman
The New Out-Licensing Start-Ups: Securing Product Supply
A new crop of companies deals head-on with Big Pharma's biggest out-licensing problems--transaction cost and the "embarrassment factor." Solving both involves strategies to make the extra work of out-licensing worthwhile for their large partners. In particular, after years of resisting the idea, they're now allowing their Big Pharma partners the right to buy back the compounds, usually after clinical proof of concept.
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