Collaboration Strategies

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Introduction
Sources of Innovation
Types and Patterns of Innovation
Standards Battles and Design Dominance
Timing of Entry
Defining the Organizations Strategic Direction
Choosing Innovation Projects
Collaboration Strategies
Protecting Innovation
Organizing for Innovation
Managing the New Product Development Process
Managing New Product Development Teams
Crafting a Deployment Strategy

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Prosthesis Inc.is developing a superior prosthetic leg and has world-renowned researchers on its staff.It also has the financial and marketing resources to take the product to the market as it has done in the past.Most likely,Prosthesis will not need take on a partner.

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Some firms avoid collaboration for fear of giving up their proprietary technologies.

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It is unusual for a company to lack certain complementary assets required to transform a body of technological knowledge into a commercial product.

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Building the necessary capabilities and resources in-house reduces a firm's asset commitment.

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Product life cycles shorten with high-speed technological changes.

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A firm cannot collaborate with its competitor.

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Firms can use strategic alliances to exploit their own capabilities by leveraging them in another firm's development efforts.

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FootsTrend Co.and AmazeDeals entered into an alliance.FootsTrend wanted access to online sales but did not have the same expertise in this field as Amaze Deals.AmazeDeals wanted to sell FootsTrend exercise mats from its online Web site.This is an example of quadrant C-individual alliance with capability transfer.

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A joint venture between two companies often results in a new separate company.

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Busche Copiers has developed and patented a new copy machine.It wishes to penetrate a wider market but is short on funds.It can use licensing arrangement to accomplish this goal.

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Licensing a technology from another firm is typically more expensive for a licensee than developing a new technology in-house.

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Collective research organizations can take the form of trade associations.

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Solo internal development is,on average,a relatively fast way of developing a technology.

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Joint ventures are less appropriate than strategic alliances when a firm places great importance on access to other firms' competencies.

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After licensing a technology,the firm typically has limited discretion over what it can do with the technology.

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A firm's effectiveness at managing its collaborations will increase with the number of collaborations to which it is committed.

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Strategic fit refers to the degree to which potential partners have resources that can be effectively integrated into a strategy that creates value.

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The pooling of supplementary resources can enable partners to achieve market power.

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Some collaboration agreements include provisions for periodic auditing either by the partner organizations or a third party.

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Equity ownership helps to align the incentives of the partners.

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