Research Catalog

Title

Flexible innovation : technological alliances in Canadian industry / Jorge Niosi ; with the collaboration of Maryse Bergeron, Michele Sawchuck, Nathalie Hade.

Author

Niosi, Jorge.

Publication

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Bergeron, Maryse.
• Hade, Nathalie.
• Sawchuck, Michèle, 1965-

Description

xiii, 142 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Technological alliances have begun to change the way high-technology companies conduct research and development. While most companies still carry out R&D in isolation, the secretive, closed laboratory is becoming a thing of the past. Flexible Innovation, the first study of these changes within the Canadian context, is a comprehensive look at the state of technical collaboration in high-technology firms and a guide-book for formulating and facilitating technical alliances.
• Basing his study on in-depth interviews in more than 130 companies across Canada, Jorge Niosi analyses the scope of collaborative research activities - both domestic and international - in the fields of biotechnology, electronics, advanced materials, and manufacturing of transportation equipment.
• He describes successful patterns of collaboration, obstacles and limitations, and the role of public policy, universities, and government laboratories in technological alliances and compares Canadian partnerships and public policy with similar patterns in Europe, the United States, and Japan.

Subjects

• High technology industries > Canada
• Cooperative industrial research > Canada
• Research, Industrial > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Theories of Technological Alliances -- 2. A Cross-Country Comparison of Government Policy -- 3. Electronics / Maryse Bergeron and Jorge Niosi -- 4. Advanced Materials -- 5. Biotechnology / Nathalie Hade and Jorge Niosi -- 6. Transportation Equipment / Michele Sawchuck and Jorge Niosi -- 7. Implications for Government and Business -- 8. Conclusions.

ISBN

• 0773513345
• 0773513353(pbk.)

LCCN

96121629

OCLC

ocm33450227

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries