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IWP Strategy – SME Competitiveness: BIOALVO vs. Remynd: Interfirm resource combination
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Sociais:Economia e Gestão | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gomes, Paulo | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dahab, Sónia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Simão, João Miguel Rosado | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-08-24T11:57:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-08-24T11:57:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-01 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2009-01 | |
| dc.description | A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa | |
| dc.description.abstract | This report provides a competitive assessment of a young Portuguese biotech company committed to the R&D of new drugs – BIOALVO – and addresses the best deal strategy to leverage interfirm resource combination with an identified biotech company – Remynd NV. For this analysis, three possible deal strategies for resource combination are confronted: alliance, merger, and acquisition. The first section of the report presents a competitive analysis of BIOALVO allowing concluding on its competitive position. The identified increasing importance of innovative biotech companies within the pharmaceutical R&D environment, gives BIOALVO strong growth prospects. Still, BIOALVO faces several challenges that may compromise its ability to evolve into a sustainable biopharmaceutical company. Raising the needed financing for running its drug discovery programs constitutes the main difficulty, especially due to the company’s location and its early stage character yet to achieve validation of its drug R&D processes. The second section of this report provides a detailed analysis of the importance of establishing R&D alliances/partnerships and entering M&A within the current environment of industry consolidation, and addresses the best strategy to leverage resource and knowledge combination between BIOALVO and Remynd NV. The identified cooperation risks between knowledge intensive competitors and the identified value creation drivers will lead to conclude that an acquisition is the best strategy for attaining resource combination between both firms and for strategic growth. | eng |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10362/205684 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | IWP Strategy – SME Competitiveness: BIOALVO vs. Remynd: Interfirm resource combination | eng |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| thesis.degree.name | Mestrado em Gestão |