How do consortia organize collaborative r&d?
Subtitle: evidence from the national cooperative research act
By: Suzanne E. Majewski.
Contributors: John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 483; Discussion paper (John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business : Online) -- no. 483.
Publisher: Harvard Law School
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 33
Description: "This paper uses contract-level data to presents stylized facts about how firms organize collaborative R&D agreements.  It finds several dominant modes of collaboration, including outsourcing R&D, specialization and separation of R&D activities, and more integrated &ldquo;learning&rdquo; approaches.  It also finds that when consortia participants are direct competitors in existing product markets, they are more likely to outsource their &ldquo;collaborative&rdquo; R&D.  The results suggest that many consortia organize to avoid spillovers, and therefore do not achieve the cross-pollination of know-how the National Cooperative Research Act was designed to achieve"--John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business web site.
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