• تعزيز الفعالية: تجاوز الصفقات الحرة أو المطلقة من أجل الحصول على أقصى قدر من الفوائد من خلال إقامة علاقات جديدة مع تلك الجهات الخارجية؛
Linking: connecting with outsiders to acquire needed technologies and skills; Leveraging: going beyond arms, length transactions to derive as much as possible from the new relationships with those outsiders; Learning: making efforts to master processes and product technologies, consciously building the foundation for improving current technologies and creating new ones.