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Innovation readiness assessment tool for research centres and businesses collaborating in lightweighting

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  • University of Strathclyde
Date of award
  • 2024
Thesis identifier
  • T17102
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  • 201982828
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Abstract
  • This purpose of this research is to develop a tool for research centres to assess the innovation readiness of businesses approaching them to collaborate in the context of lightweighting. Lightweighting is an advanced technique, playing an important, yet peripheral role in industry that can be used to enhance performance, profits and sustainability. Though, it can be subject to misconceptions and usually requires training or skilled and experienced individuals in its application. Through semi structured interviews, a gap in practice was identified that some businesses are wanting to collaborate with research centres in lightweighting, but they have misconceptions and misunderstandings of its application. With an influx of lightweighting enquiries, some research centres are being negatively affected. Through 2 literature reviews, one on lightweighting and the other at the intersections of research centres and innovation readiness assessment tools, many tools were found to assess collaborations between companies and research centres, but no assessment tools were identified by the author to be at that intersection. With a pressing need for a lightweighting tailored tool in industry, this research uses a literature review synthesis to output an innovation readiness assessment tool for research centres and businesses collaborating in lightweighting, contributing to both practice and literature. A holistic and adaptive framework was developed based on the context boundaries and would be of interest to businesses who can use it to think about their own readiness and to research centres as points of discussion before engaging in collaborations in lightweighting.
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  • Evans, Dorothy
  • MacBryde, Jillian
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