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Why crash pharmaceutical research?
Author(s) -
Gittins John
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
randd management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.253
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1467-9310
pISSN - 0033-6807
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9310.00043
Subject(s) - crash , pharmaceutical sciences , computer science , management science , operations research , engineering , medicine , pathology , programming language
In a competitive environment it is important to bring research projects to an early successful conclusion. A stochastic model of a typical pharmaceutical research project shows that it is often very desirable to allocate more scientists to a project than the number which is most efficient in terms of progress per scientist‐year.