Question

Your design team wants some help with the design of a locally responsive product intended for the host. They wish to own all of the intellectual property rights, and minimize costs. You should:___________a) Greenfield - Open a design studio in the host location.b) Acquire a local design firm in the host.c) Merge with a design firm in the host.d) Enter into a JV with a firm in the host.e) Enter into a sponsored development agreement with an alliance partner in the host.f) None of the choices listed here.g) All of the Greenfield, Acquire, Merge, and JV choices will work fine.

Answer 1

Answer:

b) Acquire a local design firm in the host.

Explanation:

The limitations with related to the greenfield, sponsored, mergers and JVs is that they dont give any assurance of 100% control and the ownership should be considered for the intellectual property

Now if one could select for the acquistion purpose that means they have the overall control and the ownership

So the above should be the answer