Preserving the Promise - Improving the Culture of Biotech Investment (Paperback)

Preserving the Promise: Improving the Culture of Biotech Investment critically examines why most biotech startups fail, as they emerge from universities into an ecosystem that inhibits rather than encourages innovation. This "Valley of Death" squanders our public investments in medical research and with them, the promise of longer and healthier lives. The authors explicate the Translation Gap faced by early stage biotech companies, the result of problematic technology transfer and investment practices, and provide specific prescriptions for improving translation of important discoveries into safe and effective therapies. In Preserving the Promise, Dessain and Fishman build on their collective experience as company founders, healthcare investor (Fishman) and physician/scientist (Dessain). The book offers a forward-looking, critical analysis of "conventional wisdom" that encumbers commercialization practices. It exposes the self-defeating habits of drug development in the Valley of Death, that waste money and extinguish innovative technologies through distorted financial incentives.

General

Imprint:	Academic Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Scott Dessain • Scott M. Fishman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-0-12-809216-3
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Inventions & inventors Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical equipment & techniques > Medical research Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Personal property law > Intellectual property, copyright & patents Promotions
LSN:	0-12-809216-5
Barcode:	9780128092163

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