Management scholars have long stressed the importance of evolutionary processsesfor inter-firm cooperation but have mostly missed the promising opportunityto incorporate ideas from evolutionary theories into the analysis of collaborativearrangements. In this paper, we first present three rules...

Extensive research has been conducted on collaborative R&D in the last decades. Moststudies concentrated on multinational enterprises in traditional industries andpharmaceuticals. In this paper we focus on collaborative R&D in new materials development.This field can hardly be related to a...