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How to Develop Collaboration in Drug Development Process: The Role of Professional Service Firms
Full text linkThe innovation chain of the pharmaceutical industry is more and more complex. In particular, a new type of players, the start-ups founded by researchers (Academic Start-ups) have proven to be particularly effective in the first steps of exploring new, radically innovative technologies. These small start-ups miss the financial resources and the industrial experience necessary to embark in the later stage of technologies‘ development. To overcome these limits, what academic start-ups require the most is a collaborative linkage with large biotech and pharma companies. To such end, Business Development Professionals are offering their services to academic start-ups, to set up a collaborative linkage with potential partners. Our article investigates the process of engagement between Academic Start-ups and Business Development Professionals and in particular, we focus on the factors that influence collaboration between the two actors. In order to investigate the development process of collaboration we conducted an exploratory study trough the submission of a semi-structured questionnaire covering different aspects of the engagement process to a sample of business professionals. The study provide first evidences about the main factors that prevent the development of collaborations and provides some suggestions to overcome the challenges that both parts found in the collaboration process
How to develop collaboration in drug development process: the role of professional service firms
No full textDon’t be afraid to breathe: an open social innovation case to face grand challenges
No full textOpen social innovation has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for
addressing grand societal challenges such as climate change,
inequality, and global health crises. In contrast to traditional open
innovation -which is predominantly firm-centric and marketoriented-
open social innovation underscores the importance of
inclusive, collaborative, and cross-sectoral efforts aimed at generating
solutions with meaningful societal impact. This study investigates
the distinctive characteristics and practices of open social
innovation by exploring an open social innovation process that
was successful during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on
a comprehensive qualitative analysis of interviews, observations
and archival data with many stakeholders involved in the open
social innovation process, our findings highlight four key practices
of open social innovation: 1) decentralising external search; 2) flexing
existing resources, 3) co-creating value with communities, and 4)
combining intellectual property rights with open-source systems.
These practices differ significantly from traditional open innovation,
particularly in their focus on inclusivity, spontaneity, and shared
societal goals. The study contributes to the literature by demonstrating
how open social innovation transcends conventional, firmcentric
innovation frameworks. It highlights the capacity of open
social innovation to foster systemic change through voluntary,
trust-based, and purpose-driven multi-stakeholder engagement.
Furthermore, it provides new insights into how such practices can
address complex, grand challenges, offering both theoretical and
practical implications for innovation management
Student entrepreneurship: a bibliometric analysis
Full text linkThe present paper aims to investigate the literature on stu-dent entrepreneurship in order to identify the most recent research field. The study relied on the co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling techniques to investigate a com-plete data set of student entrepreneurship publications.Results of the co-citation and bibliographic coupling analy-sis have identified two main approaches (exogenous and en-dogenous) and five research topics (university ecosystems, innovation intermediates, personality, personal background and behaviour theory) on student entrepreneurship.The present study represents the contributions offered by studies about entrepreneurship strategies. Building on findings emerging from a qualitative content analysis on clustered publications, the authors discuss a future research agenda that is expected to inspire future studies on the stu-dent entrepreneurship field
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