Industry Perspectives on Pre-competitive Collaboration

A special issue of Clinical Pharmacology Therapeutics features a series of articles on collaboration and pre-competitive activities. You'll find some perspectives from GSK by Patrick Vallance, et al., a piece by Lilly's Bernard Munos about the cultural changes required to make collaborations effective, and a paper by G. Vargas et al. that marks out some of the challenges of pre-competitive collaboration (many of which relate to the information and vocabulary of the data to be shared). This series highlights the need for strong information standards that can support the changes in the industry to ensure that Information aspects are treated both early on in the analysis of collaborations and also during their delivery.