Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Narula,Rajneesh
Author-workplace-name: MERIT 
Title: Explaining the growth of strategic R&D alliances by European firms
Abstract: This paper first develops an explanation for the increasing popularity of strategic technology alliances, both globally, and by EU firms. It then evaluates, using data over the period 1980-1994, how private, non-subsidised cooperative agreements in R&D by EU firms has evolved, paying particular attention to the growth of intra-EU activity relative to extra-EU agreements (i.e., EU-US and EU-Japan alliances). Essentially, EU firms'' partnering habits reflect the need to seek strong partners regardless of nationality within a given industry, although intra-EU partnering enjoyed a brief popularity during the latter half of the 1980s.
Keywords: international economics and trade ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 1998
Number: 024
File-URL: http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=329
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 74979
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:1998024