IfM News August 2015No 212

AMSCI funding approved for major pharmaceutical supply chain project

IfM work on UK pharmaceutical supply chains scales up as the project moves into next phase

£11.2m of government funding for the REMEDIES (RE-configuring MEDIcines End-to-end Supply) project has been approved, meaning work on the project can accelerate into its next phase. The funding comes from Round 4 of the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI) and is matched by more than £11m from industry.

The REMEDIES project, launched in 2014, is headed up by GlaxoSmithKline with research led by the CIM. It brings together key players in the end-to-end supply chain, including major contract manufacturing organisations, equipment manufacturers along with regulators, knowledge transfer networks and healthcare providers.

The project, due to be completed in March 2018, has several technology based application projects underpinned by two platform

projects: clinical trials supply chains, led by GSK, and commercial supply chains led by IfM. This new announcement means that the project can move into the technology application phase.

Jag Srai, (CIM) REMEDIES Research Director, said: “Now the government funding has been approved, we can build on the considerable amount of progress made in the design of these production and supply chain transformative technologies, enabling investments in expertise and capital across the projects led by our industrial partners.”

David Cardwell, Head of the Department of Engineering, said: “Life sciences have always been an integral part of the ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’ and with the Precision Medicine Catapult now established here and the arrival of AstraZeneca’s global HQ imminent, Cambridge is rapidly becoming the centre of pharmaceutical research and development in the UK. I am delighted that the IfM is supporting this trend with its leading role in the REMEDIES project, in which researchers and industrial partners are working together to make a significant contribution to this globally important sector.”

More information on the REMEDIES project and partner organisations,

will be available on a new website from 10 September:

www.remediesproject.com

Building strategic university-industry partnerships: lessons from the UK and US

CSTI has released a report discussing key lessons and effective practices from UK and US experiences for building and nurturing effective and mutually beneficial strategic university-industry partnerships.

Many large research intensive firms are looking to consolidate the number of universities they work with. Critically, many are identifying a core set of partners with which to form longer term, deeper and more strategic relationships. If successful, these partnerships can unlock significant additional value for both firms and universities. Worryingly, however, for the UK and US, these decisions are becoming increasingly global with competition emerging from key emerging economies.

The report – authored by Tomas Coates Ulrichsen and Eoin O’Sullivan (CSTI) – explores what can be done by universities and their industrial partners to build and nurture mutually beneficial and effective strategic partnerships. It draws on the expert insights and experiences of 70+ senior thought-leaders from leading UK and US universities, major research-intensive multinational firms, and UK and US government funding agencies gathered during a major UK-US workshop on this topic in 2014. The workshop hosted by CSTI in partnership with PraxisUnico, the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership and the Science and Innovation Network.

Download the report here: http://bit.ly/1K0g4vz

New roleDoroteya Vladimirova (CIS) Centre has been promoted to Senior Research Associate. Doroteya is looking forward to tackling new challenges in her new role.

Qualcomm European Research Studentship Fund in Technology Qualcomm expect in 2016 to elect at least two European Research Studentships in Technology, tenable in the University, for full-time postgraduate work.

The Studentships will normally be available to home or EU students. The financial support may include approved College and University fees (at the Home or EU rate) and maintenance at the standard rates, together with any fee approved by the Managers for training. In fixing the value of the Studentship, account will be taken of other resources available to the student, including other awards held. The Studentships will normally

be held, subject to satisfactory progress, for the prescribed duration of the course. The Studentships are not normally intended for support of candidates who have already embarked on a course of research leading to a PhD Degree.

Students applying to undertake research in the eligible Departments (the Department of Engineering, the Computer Laboratory and the Judge Business School) in the School of Technology will be considered for nomination for a Qualcomm European Research Studentship by their Departments. Applications must be received by 5 February 2016. Departments will apply for the studentships on behalf of the eligible students by 24 February 2016. There is no need for prospective students to apply separately.

It is expected that successful candidates will be informed in March 2016. Please contact Lorraine Baker for more details lb209@cam.ac.uk

Editor MortaraLetizia Mortara (CTM) has joined the Editorial team of the R&D management Journal as an Associate Editor. The Journal is directed by Professor Ellen Enkel, from Zeppelin University in Germany. R&D Management publishes articles addressing the interests of both practising managers and academic researchers in R&D and innovation management. Covering the full range of topics in research development design and innovation and related strategic and human resource issues - from exploratory science to commercial exploitation - articles also examine social economic and environmental implications.

Academy of Management Conference

Veronica Martinez and Andy Neely from the Cambridge Service Alliance organised and chaired a symposium in the top academic management conference – the Academy of Management Conference. The symposium took place on the 10th August in Vancouver, Canada. The theme of the symposium is “Services, platforms, business models, innovation and the implications for open governance”. Key experts from the fields of services, innovation, business models and platforms came together to present and discuss their latest research in the light of the symposium theme. They are Prof Henry Chesbrough from University of California Berkeley, Prof Michael Cusumano from MIT, Prof Fernando Suarez from Northeastern University, Prof Annabelle Gawer from Imperial College London and our industry panelist Neil Alison Director of Business Model Innovation at Pearson North America and the discussant Prof Ivanka Visnjic from ESADE Business School. The panelist inspire intesting questions and debates that made the event a success.

New PeopleDorothy Schulz-Budick has joined CSA as a visiting student for eight weeks, from Humboldt University, Berlin, where she studies English and Swedish. In the field of Service Research Dorothy is working with Mohamed Zaki and Florian Urmetzer.

Dr Xiao Li has joined CIS as an academic visitor until January 2016. She is an Associate Professor of Management Science at Hangzhou Dianzi University, China. Her current research seeks to understand how to optimize endosymbiosis management and ectosymbiosis management of product service systems for better sustainability of companies in dynamic supply and demand network. While at the Centre, her research will be on value design and development of an enterprise product service system for cloud manufacturing for sustainability. You can contact her at xl395@cam.ac.uk

How can big data create value for companies?

Watch Mohamed Zaki (CSA) on YouTube as he describes recent research from the Cambridge Service Alliance into:

• How can big data create value for companies?

• What are the key data-driven business models?

• What are the questions large companies need to ask when creating their own data-driven business models?

The video is based on a recent report from the Cambridge Service Alliance called ‘Data and Analytics - Data–Driven Business Models: A Blueprint for Innovation’. Watch the video here: http://bit.ly/1K0g0M9

Internet of Animal Health Things - Case StudyCSA have launched a new report which discusses the recent revolutionary changes in data-management practices in livestock farming, driven by the continued intensification of livestock farming alongside the rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT). The Data-Driven Business Model is applied in the context of precision livestock farming businesses.

Sustainable Nancy

Nancy Bocken presented on the topic “the sustainable business model archetypes to enable systems-thinking and to create sustainable value” as part of a Professional Development Workshop at the Academy of Management Annual Conference in Vancouver this year (7-11 August 2015). The was a collaborative workshop with the Network for Business Sustainability, John Molson School of Business, University of Cape Town, Deusto Business School, UAI Business School and Lappeenranta University of Technology on “Opening the synergies between sustainability oriented innovation and governance: the pathway to systems building Impacting sustainability practice through research”.

Rowing Spirit AwardKirsten Von Fossen has been short listed for World Rowing’s 2015 Parmigiani Spirit Award. The award is for rowers who have ‘demonstrated the core values of the sport of rowing and through these values have been able to inspire exceptional success in their own as well as other people’s lives’. The winner will receive a hand-crafted Parmigiani Fleurier watch and the rowing club of the winner will be presented with a custom-made new Filippi racing eight boat. Kirsten currently rows for the Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club on the lightweight team.

www.worldrowing.com/news/2015-parmigiani-spirit-award-narrowed-final-six

Farewell to JoonmoJoonmo Ahn, a former CTM PhD student has joined academia as a full-time lecture (Assistant Professor) at Graduate School of MOT (Management of Technology), Sogang University in Seoul, Korea. He welcomes research collaboration and any cooperation with all IfM members (jmahn@sogang.ac.kr).

PublicationsTyl, B., Valet, F., Bocken, N., Real, M. The integration of a stakeholder perspective into the front end of eco-innovation: a practical approach. Journal of Cleaner Production (in press) www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652615010768

Bocken, N., Short, S. Towards a sufficiency-driven business model: Experiences and opportunities. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (in press). Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652613008032

Joon Mo Ahn, Tim Minshall, Letizia Mortara. Open innovation: a new classification and its impact on firm performance in innovative SMEs. Journal of Innovation Management 3, 2 (2015) 33-54

Lim, S.F.W.T., Jin, X. and Srai, J.S. 2015. Last-mile logistics models: A literature review and design guideline. Proc. 20th International Symposium on Logistics, Bologna, Italy.

Lim, S.F.W.T. and Srai, J.S. 2015. A Network Configuration Perspective on E-Commerce Driven Last-Mile Supply Chains: Key Configuration Dimensions and Mapping Toolset. Proc. 20th Logistics Research Network Annual Conference, Derby, England.

Lim, S.F.W.T. and Srai, J.S. 2015. E-Commerce Last-Mile Supply Network Configuration and Logistics Capability. Proc. 10th Hamburg International Conference of Logistics, Hamburg, Germany.

Tyl B, Vallet F, Bocken N, Real M, The integration of a stakeholder perspective into the front end of eco-innovation: a practical approach, Journal of Cleaner Production (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.07.145