商品簡介
The ever-shortening product life cycle, and the technological revolutions are placing increasingly heavy demands on the development departments of the industry, resulting in making the technological world more competitive. These trends make the technological sectors in the industry, more open to cooperation, in some sectors, a single firm cannot sustain the competitive advantage for very long in the highly competitive industry sections without heavy investment in R&D. Such heavy investment taxes the annual turnover of the firms and attempts are always made to reduce it. One of the simplest ways is to share the burden of R&D between firms. The main problem in R&D cooperation between firms is that if the firms are technologically close enough to cooperate, they are probably also close enough to be competitors...
This book is a ready reference for understanding the concept of Collaborative Research (CR) and its practical applications. It takes a comprehensive view of the theoretical background of CR, the role of the three key players in CR---the Government, the industry, and the Academia---and their interactions, and simultaneously, also provides practical advice to practitioners. The practical advice also looks into the way companies view CR, the reasons behind why companies are wary of entering into CR, why they decide not to get involved with CR despite its central role in the development of an organization, and the alternative actions.
A distinguishing feature of this book is that it analyzes collaboration in terms of various research methods---Solitary Research, Research & Development (R&D) Consortia, and Research Joint Venture (RJV)---and explains the economic justification for the implementation of each of these.
作者簡介
Amiram Porath is a private consultant for business development in israel
He is also an external policy expert to the High Level Expert Group on Reporting of Intellectual Capital for Increased Investment in Research and Development.
He was honored with the Italian knighthood (Cavaliere OSSI) in 2008.
