Special prize of the Plumes des Achats jury
This book is the result of his thesis carried out at the CRG (Management Research Center) of the Ecole Polytechnique under the direction of Sihem Ben Mahmoud Jouini "Relational approach to vertical innovation cooperation - performance factors of the customer-supplier relationship in innovation". Romaric Servajean-Hilst seeks to identify the dynamics within an inter-firm innovation cooperation that promote its performance. To do so, he is interested in the management of the innovation relationship between a client company and its innovative supplier, and focuses on the mechanisms that affect both the collaborative innovation project and the client-supplier exchanges. This thesis won the French-speaking thesis awards in Purchasing Management and Innovation Management.