Name of Business
Address
Post Code
Name of respondent
Job/Position
Telephone
A. General information
A1.a Main Business
A1.b In which other fields of business the company
is active?
Please list:
A2.a Please indicate the ownership of your
business
Share capital held by another company
An independent company
A2.b if the business is majority or wholly owned subsidiary:
What is the name of your total company
Group
A3. Approximately how many people (Full
Time Equivalents - FTE) were employed in your business:
In 2003?
In 1998?
A4. Does your business undertake manufacturing?
B. Research and Development
B5. Approximately how many people (FTEs)
were employed in Research and Development:
In 2003?
In 1998?
B6. Please list 3 main R&D sites of
your business
Location
Postcode No.
of R&D workers (FTEs)
C. Sourcing for Innovation
C7. Which of the following R&D and related activities
does your business undertake IN-HOUSE or SOURCED EXTERNALLY either
through BUY IN or through Collaboration?
In House
Sourced Externally
Basic research services
Applied research services
Experimental development
Reverse engineering
World market product development
Adapting/developing products/services for
the Eire market
Product design
Testing and prototype work
Market research and marketing
Software used in R&D
Clinical trial work
Other, please specify
C8. Approximately what was the total expenditure
(€,000) for outsourced services?:
In 2003?
In 1998?
C9. How important are the following factors
in your business’ decision whether to source your R&D and related
technical activities from other organisation (either through contract
work or via collaboration)?
5.Very important 1.Not
relevant
Reducing development costs
Sharing risks and uncertainties
Accessing expertise not available in-house
Reducing development time / time to market
Easier to manage rather than to manage
in-house
Keeping up with rapid pace of technology
change in products
Keeping up with rapid pace of technology
change in processes
Other, please specify
C10. Does your business SELL R&D, design,
technical or related services?
No R&D and related technical work is supplied
to other companies
C11. Approximately what was the total revenue from
these activities in 2003?
D. Management and practice of Sourcing for
Innovation
Please answer the following questions thinking
about the most significant R&D
project or INNOVATION
D12. Concerning this project, how was the project
characterised?
5. Very high 1.
Very low
Degree of novelty of the R&D or technology
Degree of applied research services
Degree of experimental development services
Degree of design services (including product
design)
Degree of product testing
Degree of market research & marketing
Degree of software used in R&D
Other, please specify
D13a. How many people were involved in making the
sourcing decision?
D13b. Approximately, how long did the decision take
- from conception to signing - an agreement with a contractor or
partner? in months
D13c. At what level was the final decision taken for
the process to go ahead?
Other, please specify
D14. How did you become aware of your need for this
knowledge/research/technology?
D15. What is the research or technology going to be
used for?
D16a. How many partners were involved in this project?
D16b. Please describe the partner (or three most important
partners in order of importance if more than one) and the nature
of the relationship associated with this outsourcing project
Partners Name
Location
Partner's typeeg. customer, supplier, university etc.
Nature of relationshipeg. research contract, joint venture, licence
D17. Out of the following criteria, please
rank the three most significant factors in selecting your partner(s)
Research and technical capability
Ability to get the project done on time
Ability to undertake the project within
cost
Ability to be flexible/cooperative partner
General trustwothiness
Worked with them before
Other, please specify
D18. How complex is/was the project in
terms of its inter-relationships with other research or technologies
within the business? Please rate
5 = the project’s boundaries are very indistinct
and it involves closely interrelated and complex linkages with other
research areas and technology
1 = the project forms a very distinct component and the relationship
with other research areas or technologies is simple and clear
D19. Please rate the following barriers
to this sourcing project:
5. Very high 1.
Very low
Research or technology too difficult to
allocate into distinct activities
Concerned that the key knowledge/intellectual
property will leak out to contractor or collaborator
Could not identify a suitable partner
Research and technology too new
Too much knowledge associated with the
project was tacit in nature
Regulatory restrictions on outsourcing
Confidence in the contractor/partner’s
ability to deliver relevant solution
Research or technology strategic to the
business’s own competitive advantage
R&D or technology too difficult to
re-absorb back into business
Other, please specify
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