Not-for-Profit Organization
Creating Access to Medicines

- Creator of Innovative Approaches to Intellectual Property Management
of Health Products for Improved Public Sector Access -
- Partner in Public-Private-Partnerships with Pharmaceutical Manufacturers -

Our principal purpose is to increase access to medicines of assured quality at affordable prices for public health services in developing countries.

We focus on the identification and introduction of quality health technologies and pharmaceuticals that otherwise would not be available for the public sector in developing countries.

Concept Foundation is a globally operating not-for-profit organization. We aim at providing access to medicines through manufacturing of pharmaceutical products of assured quality in developing countries according to  cGMP standards. The business model is built on the out-licensing role of Concept Foundation as licensor to pharmaceutical companies for the manufacturing and marketing of the selected products. Through a rigorous due diligence process for their technology capabilities, we select pharmaceutical companies as licensees for manufacturing, marketing & sales of medicines and health products and license out the intellectual property we own and manage.

Since more than 15 years Concept Foundation manages the complex downstream processes of  technology transfer andIP out licensing. We manage the capacity building in developing countries by IP and technology transfer to pharmaceutical manufacturers in the developing world and prepare the licensees for commercialization of the license products. Adequate training and education of the licensees supports the competitive positions of license products and companies. The contractual framework of the license agreements with the pharmaceutical manufacturers ensures that the commercial rights to the products include a supply obligation to the benefit of public health services at lowest possible costs.

Concept Foundation is leading and practicing already for  more than 15 years innovative, distinctive approaches and originative lines of IP management for  intellectual property of health products and technologies, beneficial for the public sector in developing countries, to close the medicines access gap specific to the developing world.

Concept Foundation as licensor to commercial private sector partners is the only not-for-profit organization, among all others in the worldwide health care sector, operating on a broad platform of manufacturing licensees in the pharmaceutical industry guaranteeing sustainable results and long-term public health impact.

Concept Foundation is an experienced initiator and participant in various public-private-partnerships bringing significant accomplishments to the PPPs model in providing access to low-cost, top quality medicines for the public sector in developing countries.

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