Emes, MR;
Smith, A;
Hughes, I;
(2005)
Internal invention, external development.
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Proceedings of the R&D Management Conference 2005: Organising R&D activities: a Balancing Act.
RADMA: Pisa, Italy.
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Abstract
The success of GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK’s) business relies on the continual identification of differentiated and innovative drugs that can be protected under patent for twenty years. Advances that can increase the number of new drugs successfully introduced to the marketplace or that can reduce the amount of time spent in the product pipeline (between identifying a potential new drug and releasing it in the marketplace) will be of great value to GSK. One way to increase the throughput of successful drugs is to increase the number of potential target compounds that enter the product pipeline. GSK has achieved this by developing a ‘high-throughput chemistry facility’, which uses advanced automation systems to perform tasks that would previously have been performed manually by chemists; this facility now plays a key role in the drug discovery process. During a three-year research project, and with a primary focus on this new facility, University College London has investigated GSK’s relationship with its suppliers of automation instrumentation. We have discovered that GSK often provides the ideas for new systems to its suppliers, who then develop the products commercially and sell them in the marketplace. Interestingly, so as to encourage continuity of the supply chain, GSK generally allows its suppliers to sell instrumentation produced from GSK ideas to GSK’s competitors. This paper is a case study investigating how GSK works with suppliers of equipment essential for its Research and Development process, and why this structure proves mutually beneficial.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Internal invention, external development |
| Event: | R&D Management Conference 2005 |
| Location: | Pisa, Italy |
| Dates: | 6 Jul 2005 - 8 Jul 2005 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://radma.net/conferences/previous-radma-confe... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172395 |
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