Master
2020/2021
Strategic R&D Partnerships
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation)
Area of studies:
Management
Delivered by:
Department of Educational Programmes
When:
2 year, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Master’s programme:
Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
32
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Strategic business partnerships, referring to cooperative arrangements between firms and other organizations (e.g., universities and government laboratories), have become a popular mechanism for accessing markets and resources and for creating and transferring technology. Starting as a phenomenon in the industrialized world, partnerships have spread fast around the globe. Networking through partnerships is often touted as a key enabler of successful international business operations, especially in reference to complex knowledge-intensive industries. This course examines strategic business partnerships in all their forms, with special emphasis on partnerships involving the implementation of new ideas and marketing of new products. In-class discussion focuses on the incentives to cooperate, the advantages and disadvantages of partnerships for the various parties involved, the organizational forms of partnerships, and the processes of partnership negotiation, management and resolution. The role of multinational corporations and of smaller companies in setting up and participating in alliance networks will be appraised extensively.
Learning Objectives
- Partnership governance; partner search strategies of companies; partnership management
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Ability to analyze innovation strategies
- Skills for developing organizational STI models
- An understanding of innovation climate determinants
- Developing innovation portfolios
- Ability to design innovation processes
Course Contents
- Definitions, rationale
- Multinational Corporations, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
- Negotiating, Managing I (need, find, select partners)
- Cases (distributedin advance)
- Negotiating, Managing II (structuring, building networks, alliance dynamics)
- Global Value Chains
- Cases (distributedin advance)
- Wrap-up, Lessons
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Nicholas S. Vonortasa, & Richard N. Spivackb. (n.d.). MANAGING LARGE RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS: Examples from the Advanced Technology Program’s Information Infrastructure for Healthcare Program. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.8BE364B4
- Nicholas Vonortas, & Lorenzo Zirulia. (2015). Strategic technology alliances and networks. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, (5), 490. https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2014.988517
- Ohmae, K. (1989). The Global Logic of Strategic Alliances. Harvard Business Review, 67(2), 143–154. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=8905081819
- Pierre Dussauge, Ulrich Wassmer, & Marcel Planellas. (2010). How to Manage Alliances Better Than One at a Time. Post-Print. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.p.hal.journl.hal.00537079
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Sampson, R. C. (2004). The Cost of Misaligned Governance in R&D Alliances. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.EDB861D0