Table 1. Ranked considerations for initiating and continuing a neglected tropical disease (NTD) project.

	(A) Ranked considerations for initiating an NTD project			(B) Ranked considerations for continuing an NTD project
Rank	All companies(n = 12)	“small” companies(<60 FTEs, n = 7)	“large” companies(>500 FTEs, n = 5)	All companies(n = 11)	“small” companies(<60 FTEs, n = 6)	“large” companies(>500 FTEs, n = 5)
1	Developing world or emerging markets	Developing world or emerging markets	Employee morale	Developing world or emerging markets	Developing world or emerging markets	Employee morale
2	Goodwill and corporate social responsibility	Developed world markets	Goodwill and corporate social responsibility	Developed world markets	Developed world markets	Goodwill and corporate social responsibility
3	Non-market-based incentives	Non-market-based incentives/Priority review voucher	Developing world or emerging markets/Non-market-based incentives	Non-market-based incentives/Employee morale	Non-market-based incentives/Priority review voucher	Non-market-based incentives/Developing world or emerging markets
4	Priority review voucher	Goodwill and corporate social responsibility	Priority review voucher	Goodwill and corporate social responsibility	Goodwill and corporate social responsibility	Developed world markets
5	Employee morale/Developed world markets	Employee morale	Developed world markets	Priority review voucher	Employee morale	Priority review voucher

Potential market value in “developing world or emerging markets” was the top-ranked reason for initiating and continuing an NTD project. Responses for the importance of the six individual, commonly referenced factors were weighted on a scale of 0 to 3 (“not considered” = 0; “minor consideration” = 1; “strong consideration” = 2; “major consideration” = 3), and comparative rankings were created based on cumulative scores for each factor. Rankings are also broken down into “large” companies (>500 FTEs) and “small” companies (<60 FTEs). The number (n) of companies that responded is also indicated; one small company did not respond to the survey question that supplied the data for (B).