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Crowdsourcing and open innovation in drug discovery: recent contributions and future directions

The past decade has seen significant growth in the use of ‘crowdsourcing’ and open innovation approaches to engage ‘citizen scientists’ to perform novel scientific research. Here, we quantify and summarize the current state of adoption of open innovation by major pharmaceutical companies. We also hi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Thompson, David C., Bentzien, Jörg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7529695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33011343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2020.09.020
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Sumario:The past decade has seen significant growth in the use of ‘crowdsourcing’ and open innovation approaches to engage ‘citizen scientists’ to perform novel scientific research. Here, we quantify and summarize the current state of adoption of open innovation by major pharmaceutical companies. We also highlight recent crowdsourcing and open innovation research contributions to the field of drug discovery, and interesting future directions.