Hugo Cervantes of Deloitte on reversing the decline of IRR in pharma R&D
Posted by Andrew Smith on November 29, 2011
A new report from Deloitte looks at the decline in Internal Rate of Return (IRR) across pharma R&D, and suggests that improving late stage success rates has a far greater impact than reducing cost or development times. We spoke to Hugo Cervantes, one of the leading contributors to the report, about what these findings mean, and what pharma can do to improve the situation, from closer collaboration to a sharper focus on value throughout the development process.
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