The Future of Clinical Research Organisations: Next 5 Years
The clinical research organisation - as an industry and as a concept - is undergoing one of the most significant structural transformations since CROs emerged as a distinct sector in the 1980s. For most of their history, CROs operated as outsourced executors: sponsors handed them a protocol, they ran the study, they handed back data. The relationship was transactional. The value proposition was cost reduction and resource flexibility. That model is not disappearing - but it is being significantly repositioned. The...
