title: Academic drug discovery centres: the economic and organisational sustainability of an emerging model.
abstract: Academic drug discovery centres (ADDCs) are seen as one of the solutions to fill the innovation gap in early drug discovery, which has proven challenging for previous organisational models. Prior studies of ADDCs have identified the need to analyse them from the angle of their economic and organisational sustainability. We take that angle in an in-depth study of four prominent ADDCs. Our findings indicate that there are clear similarities in the way sustainable centres are organised, managed and financed. We also identify factors in the frameworks of academia and research funding affecting their performance.
authors: The Danish Medical Device Industry Association, Gl. Strandvej 16, DK-2990 Nivå, Denmark.
authors: Henriette
authors: H
authors: Schultz Kirkegaard
authors: Research Centre on Biotech Business, Copenhagen Business School, Kilevej 14A, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark. Electronic address: fv.ino@cbs.dk.
authors: Finn
authors: F
authors: Valentin
mesh_terms: D055808:Drug Discovery; D017146:Models, Organizational; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*