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SUMMARY:Collaborative Innovation in Biomedicine
DESCRIPTION:The biomedical industry is under enormous pressure to prod
 uce faster results\, while also finding ways to reduce costs.  Example
 s abound in one industry after another of how researchers have gained 
 tremendous advantages by collaborating on pre-competitive efforts\, bu
 t such efforts have been limited in biomedical research\, where resear
 chers often find it difficult to openly share data within their own or
 ganization\, much less with competitors.  Working together\, sharing i
 nformation\, and data sets and costs\, all have significant potential 
 for improved performance\, but only when such efforts make use of best
  practices and lessons learned from existing projects.\nCambridge Heal
 thtech Institute’s Collaborative Innovation in Biomedicine aims to b
 ring together a number of experts with practical experience in organiz
 ing\, managing\, funding\, and getting results from such projects.  Wh
 ile there are real challenges with shared resources\, IP protection\, 
 differing goals\, and finding ways to equalize value contributions and
  benefits gains\, some of the biggest challenges are based on firmly h
 eld beliefs about the risks of working together and narrow conceptions
  of what really constitute pre-competitive space. A key goal of the pr
 ogram is to provide attendees with a number of key strategies for iden
 tifying when and how collaborative innovation can and should be encour
 aged\, as well as when such efforts are less likely to produce useful 
 results.
LOCATION:Sheraton Philadelphia Center City
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