We develop a model of R&D collaboration in which individual firms carry out in-house research on core activities and undertake bilateral joint projects on non-core activities with other firms. We develop conditions on the profit functions of the firm under which R&D investments in different...

A technikai fejlődés újabb és újabb lehetőségeket nyit a vállalati tevékenységek földrajzi átrendezésére, a piaci verseny pedig arra kényszeríti az üzleti szervezeteket, hogy éljenek velük. Már évtizedekkel ezelőtt megindult a gyártási tevékenységek vándorlása olyan...

This paper empirically examines the dichotomous contribution for innovation, for technological exploration and market exploitation, from alliances. Using a sample from US economy-wide alliances of US Public companies and employing cross-tabulation of various classifications of alliances and...

Incumbent firms, especially in high-tech industries, often contract and collaborate with small research units on single projects. A delicate resulting contracting decision thus is how to allocate control. This paper considers the incumbent's problem to design a research contract that specifies:...

The article evaluates the impact of clusters on innovation outputs in the regions of the Czech Republic. The research was divided into four main phases. An overview of all institutionalised clusters in the Czech Republic, including innate clusters, was compiled in the first phase. Location...

This paper aims to identify the factors that result in cooperation in R&D in high-tech industrial sectors. Our research focused on Italian technological districts created under a specific public policy to promote innovation and regional economic development. The most interesting results concern...

Theoretical and empirical analyses have, as yet, shed very little light on the role of ICT standards consortia in the standard setting landscape. Standards consortia are private industry alliances of likeminded organizations that share the same interest to sponsor, develop and standardize...

The article evaluates the impact of clusters on innovation outputs in the regions of the Czech Republic. The research was divided into four main phases. An overview of all institutionalised clusters in the Czech Republic, including innate clusters, was compiled in the first phase. Location...

The present paper studies and compares different vertical integration structures on consumers and total surplus with licensing by mean of a fixed fee in two successive homogeneous-good Cournot duopolies where one of the firms in each market has a different cost-reducing innovation. The key...