We present an explorative analysis from qualitative and quantitative data of fourteen European economics departments for the years 2001 to 2003 and investigate how one component of a successful PhD education, which is socializing PhD students into the academic community, should be designed in...

Can added value be obtained from better collaboration between oil companies and contractors? The topic is addressed by analysing organisational patterns, contracts and compensation formats.Specific issues raised in this paper include the following questions. Are adjustments needed to contractual...

This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaborationpatterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authorsmatch an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu)with institutional data...

The USDA is attempting to shift more research funds into competitive grants involving collaborationacross disciplines on large projects. This type of research structure raises a host of information andincentive issues. The objective of this paper is to shed new light on principal-agent problems...

Increasingly universities are seen to be one of the key actors in national innovation systems (Bessant & Venables,2008; Cosh, Lester, & Hughes, 2006; Etzkowitz, Webster, Gebhardt, & Terra, 2000; Lundvall, Johnson, Andersen, &Dalum, 2002). Firms reach out to universities as a source of knowledge and support...

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...

Damned if you do--damned if you don't : the collaboration dilemma in business during war and under dictatorship / Joachim Lund -- Die "Neuordnung" des europäischen "Grosswirtschaftsraumes" : deutsche Pläne und Realität / Dietrich Eichholtz -- Thesen und Desiderata zur ökonomischen...