Impacts of Cooperative R&D on Participating Firms

合作 R 的影响

• 批准号: 9712349
• 负责人: Christopher Hill
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-15 至 1999-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9712349&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Impacts; Cooperative; R& Participating; Firms

During the past two decades, industrial firms have become increasingly engaged in and dependent on R&D partnerships involving competitors, other firms, academic institutions, government laboratories, and foreign sources. These partnership, or cooperative, arrangements are entered into with the expectation that they will help control the rising costs of R&D, avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, take advantage of economies of scale in combined efforts, or bring into the participating firms sets of capabilities that they don't have and would be expensive or unfeasible to obtain. Despite the enormous commitment of resources and strategic energy to these partnerships, relatively little is known about how effective they are at accomplishing their goals. Even less is known about what other impacts, positive or negative, these arrangements have on the participants. The primary focus of this inquiry will be on firms, since there is a large literature on the impacts of cooperation with industry on academic institutions, and the impacts of federal laboratories on industry, as well as a large but uncritical literature extolling the virtues of R&D cooperation in general as well as in specific instances. This pilot project will undertake literature reviews, interviews, case studies, and data source identification to begin to identify, assess, and understand the nature of key impacts of R&D cooperation between and on firms. The goal is to examine both immediate and delayed effects. An essential feature of the proposed work is a comparison between R&D partnerships among competitors and those that involve two or more firms that have complementary strengths to contribute. The project will interview ten to 20 industrial R&D leaders to refine initial hypotheses, and test these with two to four case studies of firms or partnerships. A list of consortia that can provide the basis for a detailed survey to be addressed to several hundred firms known to be engaged in R&D partnerships will be compiled. The comparisons will be made primarily between firms in vertical and horizontal partnerships, rather than between firms that are and are not involved in R&D partnerships. It is intended that results from this pilot and any follow-on studies be useful both to industrial R&D managers considering R&D partnerships, as well as to the many government policy makers and R&D program managers who have become advocates for and supporters of R&D cooperation as a key tool in ensuring the nation's future.

在过去的二十年中，工业公司越来越多地参与并取决于涉及竞争对手，其他公司，学术机构，政府实验室和外国资源的研发伙伴关系。这些合作伙伴关系或合作的安排被期望，即它们将有助于控制研发成本的上升，避免不必要的努力重复，利用合并努力的规模经济，或者带入参与公司的一组他们没有和不昂贵或无法获得的能力。尽管资源和战略能源对这些伙伴关系的巨大承诺，但对实现目标的有效性相对较少。这些安排对参与者的其他影响（正面或负面影响）的了解更少。该询问的主要重点将放在公司上，因为有大量文献关于与行业对学术机构的合作的影响以及联邦实验室对工业的影响，以及在一般情况下以及在特定情况下，夸大了研发合作的优点，并具有大量但不批判性的文献。该试点项目将进行文献综述，访谈，案例研究和数据源识别，以开始识别，评估和理解公司之间和公司之间的主要影响的重要性。目的是检查立即和延迟效果。拟议工作的一个重要特征是竞争对手之间的研发伙伴关系与涉及两个或多个具有互补优势的公司的研发伙伴关系之间的比较。该项目将采访十到20名工业研发领导者，以完善初始假设，并通过两到四个企业或合伙企业的案例研究进行测试。将为几百家已知从事研发合作伙伴关系的数百家公司提供详细调查的财团清单，该详细调查将被编译。比较将主要是在垂直和水平合作伙伴关系的公司之间进行的，而不是在不参与研发合作伙伴关系的公司之间进行比较。旨在使该飞行员和任何后续研究的结果对考虑研发伙伴关系的工业研发经理以及许多政府政策制定者和研发计划经理都有用，这些政府政策制定者和研发计划经理已成为R＆D合作作为确保国家未来的关键工具的支持者和支持者。