Collaborative projects
Identify the right partners and drive your collaborative projects
For more than 30 years, our specialized team has been supporting private and public sector players in setting up and leading collaborative strategic innovation and R&D projects.
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The key success factors of a collaborative project
The creation of a collaborative project can be a differentiating factor when responding to a call for projects or in a highly competitive environment. This type of project is mainly created in response to a desire to collaborate on R&D or innovation issues. To be successful, collaborative projects must meet several key success factors:
The choice of players involved in the consortium of a collaborative project should not be made at random. Before committing to a collaborative project, the parties involved must ensure that their partnership is solid and appropriate.
Are the stakeholders’ skills complementary? Can the stakeholders’ combined skills and resources achieve results that would not be possible individually? Can each party defend its own interests as well as common interests?
The operational aspects of the collaboration must be specified before any action is taken to ensure that it runs smoothly. Once launched, the project must be well coordinated to manage resources and the budget, monitor progress and inform all stakeholders of the ins and outs of the project.
What is everyone’s role? Are all parties prepared to commit to the project’s success? How and by whom is coordination ensured? What governance and communication channels should be put in place?
From the outset, it is essential to define the objectives of the collaborative project and the results and expectations of everyone involved. This helps to align the efforts of all the stakeholders and to measure the progress made.
What is the objective of the collaborative project? What are the expectations and success factors for each party?
The contractual aspects of the project must be determined in order to finalize and formalize the collaboration. Nothing should be left to chance: legal and financial aspects, intellectual property, individual contributions, returns on investment and the continuation of post-project partnerships.
Who bears what responsibilities? How are strategic decisions about the project taken?
How we support you in your collaborative projects
Alcimed assists its clients in the setting up and animation of collaborative projects. Whether it is a H2020, FUI, PIA or any other project, we help our clients (large groups, SMEs, ETI, start-ups, research laboratories, incubators, publis institutions…) to structure their collaborative project, to identify the key players in order to mobilize them around their approach, and to set up their financial file if necessary.
Thanks to our methods of work group animation combining agility and innovation (personalized workshops, gaming, etc.), our support allows our customers to reinforce the attractiveness of their collaborative project by specifying the relevance of their innovation, to optimize their partnership and to reinforce the commercial potential and the economic benefits of the project.
What they say
"Good mood, enthusiasm, clearly professionalism, and an ability to mobilize and change direction according to the needs of the project."
Dr. Amaury Martin
Directeur adjoint de l’Institut Curie
"Alcimed enabled us to articulate well all the players between them, to keep the project on track and to have a close support."
Denise LAPORTE
President of French Association of Angelman Syndrome
Examples of recent collaborative projects carried out for our clients
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Founded in 1993, Alcimed is an innovation and new business consulting firm, specializing in innovation driven sectors: life sciences (healthcare, biotech, agrifood), energy, environment, mobility, chemicals, materials, cosmetics, aeronautics, space and defence.
Our purpose? Helping both private and public decision-makers explore and develop their uncharted territories: new technologies, new offers, new geographies, possible futures, and new ways to innovate.
Located across eight offices around the world (France, Europe, Singapore and the United States), our team is made up of 220 highly-qualified, multicultural and passionate explorers, with a blended science/technology and business culture.
Our dream? To build a team of 1,000 explorers, to design tomorrow’s world hand in hand with our clients.
A collaborative project is an initiative in which several stakeholders work together to develop and bring to market an innovative new idea, product or service, forming a partnership to share knowledge and resources. This type of project is often motivated by the desire to bring research and development (R&D) work to market together. It is the combination of skills and resources, the sharing of risks and costs, and the sharing of potential benefits, that generates the collaborative project. Stakeholders may include industrial players, universities, research laboratories, start-ups or governmental organizations.
Collaborative projects can be set up in a variety of contexts: in response to a call for projects, the creation of an initiative, a public-private partnership, etc. They offer a number of advantages to the participants:
- Combining human and technical resources
- Facilitating innovation, by pooling knowledge and skills to support the project
- Sharing costs and associated risks
In the case of profits generated by the project, a redistribution will also be put in place according to predefined agreements, in agreement with the management of intellectual property.