Unmet medical needs persist despite the progress of life science innovation. The session brings together representatives from major stakeholders in the process of life science innovation who will present, in an interactive format, their own experiences with implementation of various solutions and their perspectives on remaining barriers to innovation. Panelists and the audience will brainstorm on applicability of global innovation trends (e.g., orchestrating, partnering, licensing, crowd-sourcing) to life sciences and on future improvements. Share your thoughts ahead of time at http://constructiveinterference.wordpress.com/ (look for the BIO2009 tag).

• Present various perspectives on life science innovation and share insight from implementation of various models
• Identify major remaining challenges for realizing innovation
• Propose solutions to further enable life science innovation