Innovation risks of outsourcing in pharmaceutical new product development

Technovation

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 99-109

  Lowman, M ^a   Trott, P ^b   Hoecht, A ^b   Sellam, Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innovation; New product development; Outsourcing risks; Pharmaceutical industry

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORE ACTIVITY; DECENTRALISED; INNOVATION PROCESS; INNOVATION RISKS; NETWORK-BASED; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRY; INNOVATION; OUTSOURCING;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84855905419     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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