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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business

To understand the nature of the problem, let’s look at how penicillin was brought to market. Profit-driven companies, on the other hand, feel so much pressure to go to market that they often pass on ideas with vast potential. The Valley of Death. Draetta of IACS has found many of the same issues arise in pharmaceutical research.

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The Promise and Challenge of Big Data for Pharma

Harvard Business

It will increasingly help government health agencies, payers, and providers to make decisions about such issues as drug discovery, patient access, and marketing. Historically, the pharmaceutical industry has recruited SAS programmers who have executed well-defined analyses of clinical trials in a standardized, efficient manner.

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