Managing Collaborative Scientific Research Partnerships: Neglected Tropical Diseases and the WIPO Re:Search Model
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This article examines open and collaborative approaches to capturing the critical capacities required for research and development (R&D), specifically in the context of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). It identifies key factors that shape the nature of public-private partnerships in this complex, resource intensive space, including disease focus and scope of the consortium, applied funding models and their consequent sustainability, structure and governance mechanisms, intellectual property policies and management, as well as transparent mechanisms for ensuring impact. In undertaking this analysis, we focus primarily on the example of the WIPO Re:Search, a consortium led by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) (a specialized agency of the United Nations) for sharing innovation in the fight against NTDs, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, in order to demonstrate how each of these factors has served to influence the overall framework of a specific public-private partnership. We find that each of the aforementioned factors critically influences the buy-in of stakeholders, who occupy spaces all along the drug development value chain and have drastically divergent priorities, motivations, and mandates. We conclude that there is no “one size fits all” approach, and that each partnership must carefully and strategically identify the tailored set of parameters that maximize incentives and output from within the consortium.
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