Technology Transfer from Academia to Industry Bennett’s Classification for Reading Medical Articles Medical student Reads entire article but does not understand what any of it means. Intern Uses journal as…
Interactions and Relationships between Academicians and Industry Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius, Chinese philosopher. From Analects (Book II, Chapter XV). Shall I tell…
Investigator-sponsored Research Proposals Submitted to Industry He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all….
Differences among Pharmaceutical Companies The best person to decide what research work shall be done is the man who is doing the research, and the next best person is the…
Pharmacopolitics Interferon is a substance you rub on stockbrokers. A scientist quoted in Forbes (September 1980). Advice that is most needed is seldom heeded. Chinese fortune cookie. Over the centuries,…
Institutional Memory Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. –Laurence J. Peter Education is what survives when what has been learned has been…
Mergers, Joint Ventures, and Alliances It is industries, not nations, that compete globally. –Gail D. Fosler, Chief Economist, The Conference Board. Alliances demand alignment, but breed misalignment. –R. Spekman, Darden…
Crisis Management The Arms industry’s image improved greatly when they switched their name to the defense industry—perhaps the drug industry would do well to rename itself as the health defense…
Conflicts of Interest and Bias Conflicts of interest are ubiquitous and inevitable in academic life, indeed in all professional life. The challenge for academic medicine is not to eradicate them,…
Competitive Intelligence It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised. –Frederick the Great True competitive intelligence affects nothing less than the sheer survival and prosperity of the…
