Survey Results

Responses from bio companies and service providers were largely aligned; for simplicity’s sake, the key results presented herein are those of bio-company respondents, unless otherwise noted.

Type and Number of Providers Engaged

Survey results indicated that bio companies engage with a variety of service providers.

Contract research organizations were the most common type of provider engaged, with 84% of respondents saying they outsource to CROs. This was followed by universities, which were engaged by 40% of respondents.

Most companies engage multiple providers at once, as opposed to just one, as shown in Figure 1. Likewise, most providers serve multiple clients.

Variety of types of organizations bio companies are engaging with