"It's a long, expensive, risky road to turn a scientific breakthrough into a treatment that can help patients. Fewer organizations are trying to tackle the challenges alone, says a new paper from MIT researchers published August 28 in the journal Science Translational Medicine....
"An essential new way to move discoveries forward has emerged in the form of multi-stakeholder collaborations involving three or more different types of organizations...write Magdalini Papadaki, a research associate, and Gigi Hirsch, a physician-entrepreneur and executive director of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation.
"The authors are calling for a new "science of collaboration" to learn what works and doesn't work; to improve how leaders can design, manage and evaluate collaborations; and to help educate and train future leaders with the necessary organizational and managerial skills...."
http://phys.org/news/2013-08-science-collaboration.html
Papadaki & Hirsch. (2013). "Curing Consortium Fatigue"Science Translational Medicine. Full Text.
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