Achieving and Maintaining Sustainability in Biobanking Through Business Planning, Marketing, and Access

Achieving and Maintaining Sustainability in Biobanking Through Business Planning, Marketing, and Access.

B iobanks supporting clinical and research communities are rapidly becoming the norm as essential organizational resources. Growth and centralization of biobanking services within organizations are pushing the need for strong, smart, and mature business planning to support sustainability for these expensive infrastructures. The scientific communities that base their activities on the accessibil...

Sustainability and business-to-business marketing: A framework and implications

Business Planning in Biobanking: How to Implement a Tool for Sustainability

Worldwide, the sustainability of public health systems is challenged by the increasing number and cost of personalized therapies. Quality biological samples stored in biobanks are essential for the provision of appropriate health services and also act as a reservoir for the development of precision medicine and biotechnological innovation. Economic sustainability is a crucial factor in the main...

Sustainability in biobanking.

T ight economic realities in clinical and research operations have spurred the need to re-examine financial models that support the infrastructure of biobanking. Finding ways to streamline operations, trim costs, and become more conscious of the carbon footprint of biobank operations has made ‘‘sustainability’’ a well-used buzzword of our time. This motivated us to organize a special symposium ...

Achieving Economic Sustainability Through Innovation

The current economic instability is the result of under regulated markets built on an ideology of free market capitalism and unlimited economic growth. Since the onset of industrialization and conceptualization of economic theories various externalities are not considered as a part of economy. They were assumed to be relatively small and solvable. The consequences that declare an economic model...