"Paper delivered at the R&D Management Association Conference on the State of the Art in R&D Management, Manchester Business School, July 11-13, 1988."--p. 1.

This paper empirically examines the dichotomous contribution for innovation, for technological exploration and market exploitation, from alliances. Using a sample from US economy-wide alliances of US Public companies and employing cross-tabulation of various classifications of alliances and...

Discontinuities in markets and technology as well as issues of performance are roiling the field of higher education. Despite the profusion of educational and learning concepts, a comprehensive model for both explaining and testing for educational performance has been hard to come by. The paper...

Includes bibliographical references (p. 14-17).

The extensive literature on geographical clusters has argued that firms stand to gain from the knowledge spillovers and the easy availability of skills in regional agglomerations. At the same time, the research on strategic alliances, particularly in technology-intensive industries, views...