Research Catalog

Title

Technological collaboration : the dynamics of cooperation in industrial innovation / edited by Rod Coombs [and others].

Publication

Cheltenham, GL, UK ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Edward Elgar Pub., [1996], ©1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Coombs, Rod.

Description

xii, 232 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• This major new book provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary analysis of the nature and significance of collaboration between firms and other actors involved in industrial innovation.
• The motivations and mechanisms for technological collaboration, the fields in which it is likely to occur, and the consequences of collaboration for the parties involved and the economy as a whole are all addressed by a distinguished group of scholars drawn from economics, sociology, management theory and political economy.
• Areas and issues covered include growth theory and the theory of the firm, managerial objectives across different cultures, inter-firm technological linkages, networks and innovation, strategic collaboration, collaborative agreements, state intervention, strategic alliances and informal networks.
• Technological Collaboration emphasizes the importance of inter-firm collaboration and the establishment of networks in innovation and economic growth. The issues and themes raised in this volume will be of interest to scholars, from a variety of different perspectives, interested in technical change, innovation and industrial organization.

Subjects

• Technological innovations > Economic aspects
• Technology and state
• Industrial management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: technological collaboration and networks of alliances in the innovation process / Rod Coombs, Albert Richards, Pier Paolo Saviotti and Vivien Walsh -- 2. Technological agreements, networks and selected issues in economic theory / Francois Chesnais -- 3. Managerial objectives and technological collaboration: the role of national variations in cultures and structures / Andrew Tylecote -- 4. Learning, trust and inter-firm technological linkages: some theoretical associations / Mark Dodgson -- 5. Networks, tacit knowledge and innovation / Jacqueline Senker and Wendy Faulkner -- 6. Strategic technological collaboration in Canadian industry: towards a theory of flexible or collective innovation / Jorge Niosi -- 7. The simultaneous shaping of organization and technology within cooperative agreements / Vincent Mangematin -- 8. The technoeconomic network: a socioeconomic approach to state intervention in innovation / Philippe Laredo and Philippe Mustar --
• 9. Understanding 'strategic alliances': the limits of transaction cost economics / Mo Yamin -- 10. Dynamics of cooperation and industrial R&D: first insights into the black box II / Francois Leveque, Christophe Bonazzi and Christian Quental -- 11. Informal networks in the origination of successful innovations / Fred Steward and Steve Conway.

ISBN

1858982359

LCCN

95018024

OCLC

• 32430406
• ocm32430406

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries