Biopharma Out-licensing: 2012’s “In” Thing?
Executive Summary
Talk to any big pharma business development executive about dealmaking trends for more than 15 minutes and the word out-licensing is bound to crop up. But are major drugmakers moving beyond the rhetoric and actually giving up rights to individual assets that heretofore would have been deemed too valuable to merit out-licensing? An analysis by IN VIVO suggests yes – but with qualifications.
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