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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.
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This work is financed by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, within project UIDB/50014/2020.
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Rodrigues, J.C., Delfim, V. (2022). Technology Foresight to Enable New R&D Collaboration Partnerships: The Case of a Forestry Company. In: Machado, J., Soares, F., Trojanowska, J., Ottaviano, E. (eds) Innovations in Mechanical Engineering. icieng 2021. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79165-0_15
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