Collaboration Flashcards
Strategic alliances
Share resources for mutual benefit on a project
Joint venture
2 or more companies agree to pool their resources for new project
Licensing in
Allow companies to provide capital to development and launch process
Licensing out
Company grants another licences to use its products
Outsourcing
Organisation obtains services or products from elsewhere rather than in-house
Collective research organisations
Formed to facilitate collaboration among a group of firms
Resource fit (choosing partners)
Complementary services or competencies
Strategic fit (choosing partners)
Compatible objectives
Reasons for collaborations
- increasing specialisation in products
- Splitting costs and sharing risks
- faster and achieve more
Drawbacks collaboration (state 3)
- partner become competitor
- less profits
- collaboration slow down
- less control
- firms dont develop own competencies
Differences between closed and open innovation model
Open allows for external research