Publication Date

7-15-2024

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

Daniels College of Business, Management

Keywords

Alzheimer’s disease, Research and development consortia, Pharmaceutical industry, Drug development, Public-private partnerships, Ecosystem

Abstract

Efforts to accelerate Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug development have been spurred on by the creation of open science, public-private R&D consortia. An R&D consortium provides an improved structure for generating and disseminating AD knowledge across a range of organizations while also aligning their interests. Drawing from archival and interview data collected on 46 public-private R&D consortia focused wholly or in part on AD, we uncover two important innovations: the creation of novel consortium types that facilitate coordination beyond the individual consortium, and the practice of organizations joining multiple consortia. Collectively these innovations provide member organizations with different pathways for advancing AD research. These findings have significant implications for how member organizations should approach collaboration in the AD drug development process.

Copyright Date

7-25-2024

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Rights Holder

West, Joel and Olk, Paul

Provenance

Received from Elsevier

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

6 pgs

File Size

321 KB

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the Authors. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. This article was originally published as

West, J. & Olk, P. (2024). Developing Public-Private R&D Consortia to Accelerate Alzheimer's Disease Drug Development. Drug Discovery Today, 29, 9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2024.104103

Publication Title

Drug Discovery Today

Volume

29

Issue

9

First Page

104103

ISSN

1359-6446

PubMed ID

39019427



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