TY - RPRT T1 - Myelin Repair Foundation: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Collaboration Y1 - 2010 A1 - Lakhani, Karim R. A1 - Carlile, Paul R. KW - biotechnology industry KW - collaborative innovation and invention KW - health disorders KW - health industry KW - intellectual property KW - pharmaceutical industry KW - research and development KW - risk and uncertainty KW - strategic planning AB -

This case presents the Myelin Repair Foundation's accelerated research collaboration model for drug discovery. It highlights the challenges of building a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research collaboration that is attempting to create a treatment for multiple sclerosis based on a novel scientific approach. The case provides details on how norms of academic research and intellectual property had to be updated to enable collaboration. The current dilemma facing the CEO and COO of the foundation relates to setting strategic priorities for research so that a treatment for MS can be ready in the next ten years. The strategic choices need to account for the complexities of drug discovery, the uncertainty of commercial partners' interest in the therapeutic approach and the constrained donor-based fundraising environment.

JF - Harvard Business School Case PB - Harvard Business School SN - 610-074 UR - https://hbr.org/product/myelin-repair-foundation-accelerating-drug-discovery-through-collaboration/610074-PDF-ENG JO - Myelin Repair Foundation ER -