(VF)Les recherches récentes sur les partenariats de R&D se sont surtout intéressées au domaine industriel entre organisations privées, sous l’angle des politiques gouvernementales d’incitation à l’innovation. Ces travaux laissent dans l’ombre le cas particulier de la collaboration...

(VF)Malgré l’importance croissante du secteur des TIC dans les économies contemporaines, aucune recherche n’a été spécifiquement centrée sur les déterminants de la création d’entreprises dans ce secteur. L’objectif de cette étude est de combler ce vide, en se centrant sur un...

Most current research on technology alliances assumes that trading partners are free to select an optimal governance structure. However, for international scientific research centers working with advanced technologies, the choices for industrial collaboration are often limited to short-term...

Most current research on technology alliances assumes that trading partners are free to select an optimal governance structure. However, for international scientific research centers working with advanced technologies, the choices for industrial collaboration are often limited to short-term...

With the rise of the knowledge economy, the knowledge content of goods and services is going up just as their material content is declining. Economic value is increasingly seen to reside in the former - that is, in intangible assets - rather than in the latter. Yet we keep wanting to turn...

The advent of the Single Market is increasing the intensity of competition between different regions of Europe at a time when national governments are experiencing a curtailment of their powers to assist them. Regions are not just competing for foreign investment, but with the increased mobility...

We have in the last few years been deluged with travellers' tales from the People's Republic of China, exhorting us to do business there, and encouraging us to believe in the integrity of Chinese business systems. Equally it always seems that we are to accept a slight air of mystery about how...