COLLABORATION MODEL
SCORING AND RECOMMENDATIONS

	Scoring	Weight	How to ensure Success and Mitigate Risk
Strategic	Shared objectives		Establish a mutually beneficial arrangement consisting of a well-articulated future business relationship by co-creating intellectual property, collaborating to share risk, and developing and exploiting new products and services
	Clearly defined collaboration scope		Identify scope of contribution of intellectual property to the co-creation effort, expected IP output of such effort and governance mechanisms to support a successful co-creation relationship
	Freedom to operate		Limit Background use solely to co-creation effort and usage rights for co-created assets Ensure contributor remains free to develop and offer its contributed Background and the co-created Foreground on a stand-alone basis
	Risk sharing		Contribute valuable Background and other resources for purposes of co-creating new and innovative products and services
	Worst Case planning		Carefully design Background utilization and Foreground development and commercialization arrangements Take into account need for continued access to Background to avoid IP chain of title issues
	Senior Executive Support		Ensure strong senior support for co-creation management, covering business, legal, technology, risk and other co-creation aspects
Business	Business Value proposition		Create new and innovative solutions which cannot be fully developed through closed innovation, hence requiring the sharing of Background and joint use of Foreground
	Due diligence		Diligence for clarity on (lack of gaps) in IP chain of title of Background Ensure (continued) usage of contributed Background and limit exposure tied to lack of recourse in the event of IP issues
	Optimal legal/ business structure		Carefully design and structure Background usage rights, Foreground development obligations and commercialization rights Provide for adapted contractual governance and issue escalation mechanisms
	Partnering metrics		Focus on Background acceptability criteria (geared to the co-creation output) and Foreground development milestones and obligations as key partnering metrics in any co-creation arrangement
	Rewards/ penalties		Ensure for a (defaulting) partner exiting the co-creation to be sanctioned by obligation of continued Background usage rights for the other party, and forfeiture of ownership and usage rights of Foreground
Operational	Decision-making processes		Design a permanent contractual governance system to allow the partners to manage the co-creation project, also in view of absence of permanent legal entity
	Communication		Clearly communicate progress and potential co-creation issues on a regular basis, with such communication aligned to the contractual collaboration obligations of the parties
	Quality checkpoints and review		Carefully design and structure Foreground development milestones, delivery and review processes to ensure success of the co-creation arrangement
	Change management		Ensure strong change management procedures to deal with any scope and other deviations in the co-creation arrangements
	Issue Escalation Mechanisms		Adopt flexible issue escalation mechanisms to deal with unresolved operational matters and the inherent complexity of co-creation efforts
Cultural	Collaborative mindset		Generate co-created intellectual property, collaborate to share risk, and develop and exploit new products and services
	Dedicated alliance managers		Ensure Single Point of Contact relationship management between the co-creators, covering business, legal, technology, risk and other co-creation aspects
	Joint decision-making processes		Establish well thought through decision-making processes are key in complex co-creation projects, including change management and issue escalation mechanisms
	Appropriate incentives		Use negative collaboration incentives such as obligation to provide continued Background usage rights and forfeiture of ownership and usage rights of Foreground, in addition to positive collaboration incentives