Technology Foresight to Enable New R&D Collaboration Partnerships: The Case of a Forestry Company

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2022

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José Coelho Rodrigues (Author) FEP; Delfim, V (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering

Pages: 155-163

1st International Conference on Innovation in Engineering, ICIE 2021

28 June 2021 through 30 June 2021

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Authenticus ID: P-00V-2A3

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79165-0_15

Abstract (EN): The increasing need to innovate to keep or create competitive advantage and the difficulty in retaining resources that enable innovation, force companies to look for partnerships. Partnering with the appropriate and leading R&D (Research and Development) institutions is critical to be able to innovate. One of the first challenges that emerges when building a collaboration is the selection of organizations to form the consortium. Technology foresight might be an interesting process to start building such partnership, as it helps identify technology opportunities and the entities that lead technology development. This paper uses case research to study the creation and use of a technology foresight process to build new R&D collaborations, while identifying of technology development opportunities. Findings from the case study led to the identification of how the technology foresight process was used to create a new R&D collaboration in the company under study, while identifying what motivated such collaboration and how it was managed. Furthermore, important characteristics of the team responsible for that process and of the process management are highlighted. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific