New Cooperation Modes: An Opportunity for Polish Biotechnological Clusters

Abstract

This article reviews new cooperation forms between companies, referring to the latest data from the asap (the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals). Potential cooperation between companies, universities and research institutes in the field of biotechnology in Poland based on a model of open innovation alliances are presented. Biopharmaceutical companies are looking for new and innovative paths of development. They try to implement new strategies to transfer their research processes to a higher level. To achieve this, biopharmaceutical companies often use open innovation model as an additional tool for developing new products. Thanks to the cooperation with universities in the framework of open innovation alliances, they can significantly reduce the risk, the cost of research, and most of all, through joint work with academic researchers on identifying disease mechanisms and on development of new drugs, they are able to create improved and appropriate medical therapy for patients.

Keywords

• biopharma
• strategic alliance
• open innovation alliance
• biotechnological cluster
• science and technology parks