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The Need to Know for Successful Alliance Management in the Life Sciences
We had the pleasure of hosting life science Alliance Management experts Rob Barber, Senior Director...
A Holistic Approach to Cybersecurity
With the rise of the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model and the explosion of data productio...
Inova acquires IN-PART, matchmaking platform for academia-industry collaboration
Lyon, France, 8 February 2022 – Inova announces the acquisition of IN-PART, a digital m...
Inova acquires leading European biotech news media company, Labiotech
Lyon, France, 18 January 2022 – Inova, the leading biopharma part...
Biopharma’s Year in Review: 2021’s biggest deals & partnerships
2021 was another record-breaking year in biopharma partnering, both in terms of deal size and activ...
Inova's Green Policy 2021
Download Inova’s 2021 Green Policy here.
As the world prepares for the COP26 meeting&n...
Who you gonna call? Inova’s Breach Busters!
At the best tech companies, cybersecurity is built into everything they do. Bad ...
Biopharma Dealmaking Trends & Transformation 2021
We recently brought the Inova Community together to take a dive into the trends shaping biopharma d...
Carlyle partners with Inova
NEWS RELEASE
1 July 2021
Growth equity transaction to support Inova’s ambit...
Inova Community Event 2021: The Next Generation of Inova
Digital transformation in biopharma partnering is accelerating as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic....
A Behind the Scenes Look at Pierre Fabre’s Private Partnering Event
Necessity is the mother of invention. That saying has proven true throughout all areas of life durin...
Call us Inova.
We have changed our name from Inova Software to simply Inova.
When Inova Software was found...
Biopharma Partnering - lessons from BD&L Summit
One event I try to make every year is the BD&L Summit for Life Sciences, and this year was...
Inova Appoints Claude BASSET as Chief Product Officer
Lyon, France, 4 February 2021 - Inova, the market leading partnering platform for the pharmaceutica...
Inova Appoints Caroline EDLUND TOULEMONDE as Chief Strategy Officer
Lyon, France, January 28, 2021 - Inova, the market leading partnering platform for the pharmaceutic...
Inova and BIO, in partnership with Evaluate, announce a new series of therapeutic-specific Virtual Partnering events for 2021
These events will bring together early-stage biotechs and reputed biopharma enabling focused meetin...
Making a Billion Dollar Pharma Deal Happen
Eli Lilly & Company and Evox Therapeutics recently took Inova beh...
Inova is a KPMG Top Tech Tomorrow Laureate
KPMG has included Inova as one of its Top Tech Tomorrow companie...
Inova's Green Policy 2020
Download Inova's 2020 Green policy here
Inova has released its annual Green Policy document and ...
What's new in Inova: Contract Management
Welcome to our June newsletter! In our last webinar, we tackled alliance management best practices w...
What's new in Inova: Alliance Management
In our last webinar, we tackled alliance management best practices with the help of Rob Barber, Seni...
Alliance Management Best Practices: Reducing Risk & Driving Successful Partnerships
I recently had the chance to participate in a webinar joining Rob Barber of Mundipharma and Philippe...
#PartneringAgainstCovid19: Fighting a Pandemic by Innovating Partnering
As I’m writing this, we’ve just closed the COVID-19 Virtual Partnering Event.
The final mee...
Global virtual partnering event uniting the life sciences industry in the fight against COVID-19
Global virtual partnering event uniting the life sciences industry in the fight against COVID-19
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How We're #PartneringAgainstCOVID19
A few weeks ago, Thomas B. Cueni, Director General of International Federation of Pharmaceutical Man...
Virtual partnering event launched to accelerate partnerships in the life sciences industry to fight against COVID-19
COVID-19 Virtual Partnering is a unique and free-to-attend virtual event taking place on 20 April...
Inova's ISO 27001 Marathon
When I’m not at work or relaxing with my family, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll find me r...
Biotechs leading the way: first in inclusion, first in diversity
In a report released in January, industry group BIO explored how diverse the biopharma sector actual...
What's new in Inova: January 2020
2020 is off to a fast start and, fittingly enough, our January newsletter is all about speed.
From a...
Wanted: Software Engineers Who Think Ahead and Think Different
It’s not enough to have a development team that is able to meet your current strategy and customer...
Introducing Inova’s New Look
The next time you stop by Inova’s website, you’ll notice something big has happened: we’ve lau...
Values, Mission and Inova's Identity
At Inova we’ve spent the last ten years working with the world’s leading pharmaceutical companie...
2020: The Year to Invest in Customer Success
Remember that toy that you really wanted for Christmas as a kid?
You spent all December bugging your...
What to Expect in Biopharma in 2020
Happy New Year!
The Holidays are behind us and it’s time to take a quick look at what’s lying ah...
2020: The Year Pharma Rethinks Partnering
The first few days of a new year seem to encourage a certain type of speculation here on LinkedIn.
Y...
Counting the Real Cost of Your Software Choices
Business decisions so often come down to a cost-benefit analysis: what will I get for what I spend, ...
What's new in Inova: November 2019
Welcome to our November Newsletter!
In our recent Community Webinar, we tackled technology scouting ...
Why You Should Invest in Compliance
Compliance is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days, but what does being compliant in the ...
What's new in Inova: October 2019
Welcome to our October newsletter! This month, we’re taking a look at a powerful and flexible feat...
Make the Most Out of BIO-Europe 2019
BIO-Europe: it’s the most important European biopharma event of the fall, and it’s only a month ...
A dedicated CSM: The SaaS industry's best kept secret for success
Early one morning, I dashed out the door to catch my train. As I waited on the platform, I quickly d...
Low Carbon Transformation: Day 1 of a SaaS Company’s Journey
The world needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50%. While we all have ideas abou...
What's new in Inova: Biotech reporting
Welcome to our July newsletter! This month, we’re taking a closer look at reporting.
A common chal...
Gene therapy is hot on the partnering agenda
Gene therapy is undoubtedly making a comeback. After early difficulties and failures, there has been...
What's new in Inova: July 2019
Welcome to our July newsletter! This month, we’re taking a look at reporting. We know that reporti...
6 Tips For Choosing the Best Partnering Software Solution for Your Biotech
Biotechnology is booming. Everyone working in the life science industry knows it and the numbers say...
What's new in Inova: May 2019
It's time for the 2019 BIO International Convention! While BIO is an important opportunity for partn...
Social media vs digital health: why are there double standards?
We live in a digital world. More than 5 billion people worldwide now have a mobile phone and over ha...
What's new in Inova: April 2019
Welcome to our April newsletter!
In our community webinar last week, with the help of Neil Anderson,...
Inova is Going 100% SaaS
At Inova, we made the decision in 2013 to transition our partnering platform to a SaaS solution. Tod...
Pharma's Digital Transformation
Healthcare has gone digital. A recent report from McKinsey showed that more than 70% of consumers ar...
Open Innovation in Pharma: The Next Chapter
Open innovation did not come naturally to the pharma industry. While the consumer goods and manufact...
Lessons from Google – Collaboration Catalyzes Innovation
Google® is ubiquitous in the daily life of everyone using the internet. The company is synonymous w...
Collaboration in Pharma – Today’s Business Imperative
It wasn’t that long ago that the pharma giants were fierce competitors. Back then, conversations a...
What's new in Inova: October 2018
Welcome to the October newsletter!
This month we’re looking at two new and updated features that s...
How pricing is impacting oncology partnerships
A lot is happening in the field of Oncology. Cancer remains a leading cause of death, but innovative...
Inova secures additional funding from its founders and NextStage AM to support its strong growth
In a financial deal of 6M€, NextStage AM takes a stake in Inova, a SaaS partnering platform for ph...
What's new in Inova : September 2018
Welcome to our September edition of What's new in Inova!
This month instead of looking at what’s n...
What's new in Inova : June 2018
What's new in Inova? Contact Roles! This new feature helps you collaborate with the right team membe...
How to have more productive meetings at BIO 2018
Get ready for the 2018 BIO Convention with our a new whitepaper: 14 best practices for maximizing yo...
How to write the perfect meeting request for BIO 2018
The 2018 BIO International Convention is coming up fast. To help you better prepare, we’ve just re...
Inova launches JPM Private Scheduler to make your meetings @ JPM 2019 easier
Inova launches JPM Private Scheduler
Planning to attend the JP Morgan Annual Healthcare Conferenc...
Building an alliance culture that fosters an open and transparent communication between parties
A few weeks ago, we launched our 7 Best Practices for Building a Successful Alliance Management Func...
From conferences to deal signature: the long road to partnership
It's a long road to partnership in the life sciences. To manage the process effectively, pharma...
Genentech Partnering: Driving Success with Flexible Alliance Management
Partnering in the life sciences isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s time-consuming, subject to su...
Inova Sets its Sights on Japan
Determined to expand internationally, the Lyonnais software editor is sending one of its French empl...
Inova Reaps the Benefits of its New Business Model
Inova, software editor of a CRM dedicated to pharmaceutical companies, has followed software trends,...
Inova releases new Outlook integration that simplifies key partnering tasks
New integration makes it faster and easier for Inova users to create opportunities and contacts from...
Partnering in the Life Sciences: Collaboration vs M&A
There’s a general consensus that partnering and M&A in the life sciences enable access to exte...
The New One-on-One Partnering System
In the hunt to find and develop new breakthrough treatments, more and more companies are turning to ...
Why Partnering Works
There’s no doubt that partnering has a positive impact on pipeline value. Externally sourced asset...
INOVA Announces Partnership with Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
New partnering system for the life sciences industry to be launched ahead of the BIO International ...
Inova Adds Record Number of Life Science Clients in 2014
In one year, seventeen new life science companies signed worldwide, including medtech, biotech and t...
Inova launches the SaaS version of its partnering software, hosted by Interoute
The new version offers Inova clients better performance, greater flexibility and lower costs
London ...
Overcoming the Challenges of Collaboration to be a Partner of Choice
Last week, our guest contributor, Pascal Goursaud, CEO of BACARU and General Secretary of ASAP Franc...
Open Innovation - Not just a catchy phrase, proof from P&G that it really works
Open innovation has become a full-blown buzzword, one that promises improved quality, reduced expend...
The telecom industry: Dealing with constant revolution
Innovation makes the world go round and some industries are more exposed to this fact than others. I...
A unified Business Development and Partnering system, lessons learned from a Biopharma Leader
We recently finalized the deployment of our Business Development & Licensing product suite at on...