People Power: How The Crowd May Shape The Funding And Development Of Drugs
Executive Summary
Companies are sprouting across the pharma value chain that harness the voices of patients and other individual stakeholders to drive the research, development, and financing of drugs. Pharma is taking tentative steps toward using these methods, but high barriers remain to their systematic integration in R&D.
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