Title: How do consortia organize collaborative r&d?
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.
Subjects: Research and development contracts, Cooperative industrial research, Joint ventures, United States