What management strategies can a pharmaceutical company implement to sustain innovation?

Prevention of Iodine Deficiency: Difficult to Implement, More Difficult to Sustain

Developing a Framework to Manage a Pharmaceutical Innovation Ecosystem: Collaboration Archetypes, Open Innovation Tools, and Strategies

Based on an in-depth case study of the ecosystem of one of the world ́s largest healthcare companies including internal and external data collected since 2009, and through over 50 interviews with key stakeholders from Biotech companies, Academia, Contract Research Organizations, and Venture Capital firms this article elaborates on the challenges and opportunities of collaborative innovation in t...

Strategies to implement and sustain medication use for alcohol and opioid disorders

Background Medication for treatment of alcohol and opioid use disorders decreases relapse rates and increases long-term recovery. Inclusion of medications in treatment plans, however, may be a complex process for addiction treatment centers. Sustaining use of medications requires additional wellorganized and concerted efforts. Qualitative interviews explore implementation and sustainability str...

What Triggers Management Innovation?

There is a popular tendency in management science towards what could be called “theory denial”: the denial of the significance of theory for the development of management thought and action. We contend that this theory denial is just wrong, in the light of empirical evidence, and that is a damaging idea, because it diverts the attention of the scholarly community away from the core issues of th...

What drives pharmaceutical innovation and knowledge exchange ? A study supporting the use of Knowledge Management within the pharmaceutical industry

Innovation is a key driver of the pharmaceutical company, from an initial discovery of a compound to the final development of a marketable and novel medicine, the web of processes to reach a viable end stage requires innovative behaviour backed by accurate knowledge. This paper analyses the use, importance and sources of knowledge within the drug development process and suggests that a pharmace...