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Establish aims for collaboration

Why collaborate?

Collaboration, involving two or more organisations sharing resources and activities, is often viewed as the quickest and most cost effective method to attain competitive advantage.

Establishing an overall strategic aim for your collaboration and assessing your company's capability for innovation and technology transfer, can go a long way towards ensuring the right partner is selected and the collaboration is successful.

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