Market Research Report Hearing Disorders Partnering Market Research Repor | Page 2

The report provides understanding and access to the partnering deals and agreements entered into by the worlds leading healthcare companies. The report provides an analysis of partnering deals. The majority of deals are discovery or development stage whereby the licensee obtains a right or an option right to license the licensors technology. These deals tend to be multicomponent, starting with collaborative R&D, and commercialization of outcomes. Understanding the flexibility of a prospective partners negotiated deals terms provides critical insight into the negotiation process in terms of what you can expect to achieve during the negotiation of terms. Whilst many smaller companies will be seeking details of the payments clauses, the devil is in the detail in terms of how payments are triggered contract documents provide this insight where press releases do not. This data driven report contains multiple links to online copies of actual deals and contract documents as submitted to the Securities Exchange Commission by companies and their partners, where available. Contract documents provide the answers to numerous questions about a prospective partners flexibility on a wide range of important issues, many of which will have a significant impact on each partys ability to derive value from the deal. The initial chapters of this report provide an orientation of partnering trends. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the trends in partnering since 2010, including a summary of deals by industry sector, stage of development, deal type, and technology type.