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References for Biotech
Business on the Web |
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One of our favorite sites ( ) is
ReCap signals. It's well worth visiting for anyone in the Biotech arena. Here's a
review of the best of the site.
ReCap is a San Francisco based company that
specializes in biotechnology alliances and capitalization. It has created a database of
more than 5000 biotech alliances that have begun since 1978. Many of the biotech
agreements have been filed with the SEC. ReCap acquires copies of these agreements and
provides summaries and analyzes selected agreements in detail. While some of the specific
details have been deleted for confidentiality purposes, the body of the agreement provides
enough information to determine the basic agreement structure and terms.
In addition to the listings of contracts found on their website, ReCap offers analyzed
copies of the contracts for a fee.
Marketing uses of this database
The databases can be useful in determining for many of the companies within biotech:
- Number of agreements signed since 1996.
- Research focus
- Technologies being used/under development
- Collaborators
- Stage of drug development stage
Summary of the data found in ReCap's Alliance Database
- Parties involved in the agreement
- Date of signing of the agreement
- Type of contract: There are 31 difference types of agreements; some of them include:
acquisition, asset purchase, co-market, collaboration, commercialization,
cross-license, development, joint venture, license, manufacturing, merger, technology
- Size: disclosed total potential pre-commercial size of the agreement
- Equity: amount of equity purchased in agreement to date
- Royalty: highest royalty rate, transfer price or profit sharing percentage
- Subject: short description of agreement subject
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