Shipbuilding has changed from a "heavy industry" to become a capital- and technologyintensive activity over the last decades. While Japanese, South Korean and Western European yards dominate the merchant shipbuilding market so far, Eastern European yards are increasingly active, in particular in...

Christoph Bronder/Rudolf H. Pritz (Herausgeber): Wegweiser für Strategische Allianzen. Verlag Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler, Frankfurt/Wiesbaden 1992, 456 Seiten, 68 DM

Declining R&D intensities at the national level coincide with growing international technological links. Deviations of individual OECD countries from the average R&D intensity reflect differences in industry structure as well as in sectoral R&D intensity. At the same time, the sectoral...