Sunset clauses for all discovery projects are a useful means to ensure the company reviews progress on each project to confirm that it should be continued. These reviews may occur every two years or at other pre-assigned times.

Are your company's public statements being followied in practice? If not, try to reconcile the two or it is likely to negatively affect staff morale.

Using higher medical and scientific standards than required often trumps the competition, as they will be trying to take some shortcuts,or follow a traditional development pathway; and; the FDA and/or other regulatory agencies will observe your standards as being improvements, and will raise the bar for marketing approval. Your competitors will be required to use the same standards you have employed and thus be set back in their work.