Technology Transfer in Consortia and Strategic Alliances |  | Author: David V. Gibson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Category: Book
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Pages: 360
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0847677176
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.926
EAN: 9780847677177
ASIN: 0847677176
Publication Date: April 28, 1992
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Spurred on by the increasing international competition, the rising cost of advanced research, the need to leverage scarce scientific and technical talent, and the desire to share the risk associated with technology generation and commercialization, technology companies are banding together in research and development consortia and innovative strategic alliances. Managers in these new types of organizations face the intriguing paradox of competition and cooperation. To compete more effectively in international markets, they must find effective ways to cooperate across research and organizational boundaries. Consortia and strategic alliances are arrangements among organizations to work together to gain access to technology and markets and to accomplish objectives of mutual benefit. These arrangements pose unique management challenges. Because the members may come from very different corporate cultures, present different managerial priorities, policies, and procedures, and emphasize different and sometimes conflicting objectives, management faces a variety of organizational, technological, strategic, and cultural barriers to transferring technology expeditiously. In this book, experts from academia, business, and government address these barriers, identify ways to accelerate the technology transfer process, and provide examples of consortia and strategic alliances and their approaches to managing technology transfer. Sections: I. Leadership Perspective on Technology Transfer; II. Organizational Culture and Technology Transfer; III. Policies and Procedures for Technology Transfer; IV. Overcoming Barriers to Technology Transfer; V. Perspectives on Japanese Consortia and Technology Transfer; VI. Perspectives on European Consortia and Technology Transfer; VII. New Initiatives in Technology Transfer.
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How to have a successful consortium July 30, 2004
W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)
As the cost of research keeps rising in real terms, and so too the cost of developing a new production process and then implementing it in a factory, then consortia have their appeal. For these offer a chance to at least share the cost and risk of the research, if not necessarily the other downstream costs.
The book was written in 1992, but it is at least as relevant now. It has a collection of papers discussing how and when consortia should be formed, and the constraints under which they should operate. Semiconductor and electronics industries are well represented here. One paper is by Robert Noyce, who co-invented the integrated circuit; a seminal event. He studies Sematech, the semiconductor alliance that was formed partly in response to fears of Japanese electronics firms in the 1980s.
Technology transfer is the key theme threading the papers. Even if a consortium has found research results, it is not successful until these have been handed off and then used by its members.
The papers are substantive. Very little high level fluff or marketing hype.
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