Collaboration Insight: Collaborate, don’t Compete!

For many start-ups and SMEs in life sciences, a business model that involves finding a partner with which to collaborate is critical to long term success.  In January of this year, one of Scotland’s newest enterprises, Caritas Neuro Solutions, hit the trade press with the announcement of a landmark partnership agreement with Innvocept Solutions which will enable expansion of the company as a global player. ...

Collaboration Insight: 5 pieces of advice before entering a collaboration with academia

Academic pursuit and industrial partnership have not always been easy neighbours; I recall in the mid 2000’s, when I was leading a life science spin out company, the prevailing attitude seemed to be one of academics thinking businesses were simply cash cows while businesses thought academia represented cheap labour. Unsurprisingly our interaction with academic institutions were rarely happy and only with pain, productive. Things did...