Title: Competition, Cooperation, Research and Development
Description: Innovation is a major contributory factor to economic growth. How can it be encouraged? A solution that has received considerable support in recent years concerns the encouragement of cooperative R&D, especially among firms competing in high-technology industries.

This volume brings together recent contributions from a distinguished group of scholars from the UK, Europe, North America and Asia who examine a range of hitherto neglected issues, with the emphasis placed on the theoretical analysis of R&D cooperation.
Subjects: Technological innovations, Joint ventures, Management, International Competition, High technology industries, Industrial Research, Research, industrial, Competition, international