Building an innovation-based supplier portfolio: the use of patent analysis in strategic supplier selection in the automotive sector
With an increasing proportion of external spend allocated to a smaller number of suppliers in their supply base, car manufacturers rely more and more on the performance of key supply chain partners outside their own organisational boundaries, particularly for product innovation. The identification a...
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Elsevier
2017
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