improves the ability of the client to learn about the R&D firm s ability and the alliance project s quality. The model …

This article performs a systematic review of the research literature on the forms of collaboration among small and …

uniformly selected to initiate an alliance and to invite collaboration partners. These decide about acceptance based on an … individual threshold that is compared with the utility expected from joining the current alliance. The benefit of alliances … cost of an alliance reflects its coordination effort. Two free parameters ac and a1 scale the costs and the individual …

collaborative R&D. We identify mechanisms with particular syndromes of terms of contract and find that mechanisms cluster into five …