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In Pfizer, J&J’s Innovation Centers, Incubators Lie Paths To Indian Innovation

Pfizer India Has Two Start-ups Close To Commercialization

 
• By Vibha Ravi

Executives from J&J, Pfizer and Johns Hopkins share ideas on driving Indian biopharma innovation via innovation centers and incubators set up in association with academic institutions. On the other side of the table, Indian academia highlights the need for industry participation in skill building and the perils of ‘targeted thinking’

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Industry And Academia Shared Ideas On Paths To Indian Innovation • Source: Alamy

Multinational companies are no stranger to collaboration with academia and while tie-ups like GlaxoSmithKline plc-Harvard University, AstraZeneca PLC-Columbia University and Pfizer Inc.-University of California have been successful, the most obvious example during recent times has been Astra Zeneca’s tie-up with the University of Oxford for a COVID-19 vaccine.

At the recent Global Innovation Summit – 2021, executives from Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Johns Hopkins University drew on their experiences to share partnership-fostering ideas that ranged from proactively tapping

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