BIOENDEAVOR

Enabling Open Innovation

in the Life Sciences 

 
2012 BioEndeavor Annual Report: Analyzing Knowledge Markets in the Life Sciences

Objectives: Understanding and Enabling Open Innovation in the Life Sciences

BioEndeavor is a non-profit organization that seeks to understand and enable models of open innovation including open source innovation across the life sciences. Through its research, training, and consulting services programs, BioEndeavor brings together stakeholders from the life sciences to design and promote novel models of collaboration in emerging and bottom of the pyramid markets. Biopharma innovation capacity development at the bottom of the pyramid is a significant goal for BioEndeavor—in partnership with public and private organizations, as well as NGOs.

There are several complexities driving open innovation-including open source innovation in the life sciences including:

• knowledge complexities—with knowledge exhibiting high complementarity and high applicability across domains;
• technological complexities associated with interdependencies between technologies, the need for sophisticated equipment, as well as the scope and scale of research;
• and commercialization complexities associated with technology transfer and product development.

Network participants can:

• Join BioEndeavor in the below research projects.
• Share their own research projects and papers via the BioEndeavor portal.
• Share case studies on open innovation in the life sciences.  
• Meet to discuss issues surrounding open innovation via BioEndeavor and partner events.
• Add to the open innovation directory to document past and current examples of open innovation initiatives.
• Contact BioEndeavor at info@bioendeavor.net to join and participate on the network.
• Register to receive the BioEndeavor newsletter.

BioEndeavor Research Project Phase 2: Emerging Markets to be Analyzed

• Selected Markets: India, Brazil, East Africa

Objectives:

• Understanding Knowledge Networks in Emerging Markets;
• Understanding the Management of Assets in Knowledge Markets in Emerging Markets;
• Training in Knowledge Management for Emerging Markets;
• Partnership Development;
• Model Development and Governance Structures;
• IP Management-Knowledge Dissemination and Licensing.