Pharma techniques for resource outsourcing
Poornima GaurWiki-Regular
Do pharmaceutical companies outsource their research, or do they do it themselves in-house?
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Puja Goyal
To answer your question, the pharmaceutical companies pursue both In-house or external R&D. Bigger companies are especially doing more R&D outside to reduce risks/costs and focus their efforts/budgets on only sure bets.
Following factors affect the decision to perform research in-house/externally:
There are different phases of research that can be done outside as well as different models of collaborations.