The role of competitive intelligence in biotech startups

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Competitive intelligence (CI) gathering is essential to developing a biotech firm's business strategy, but few startups have sufficient support systems in place to do CI effectively. The article, "The role of competitive intelligence in biotech startups", the first of two on the topic, addresses why it is important and how to do it.

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