This chapter focuses on public research as one possible external source of knowledge available for private companies seeking scientific support in relation to product development projects, and analyses inter-organizational relations between public research institutions and innovative firms...

This empirical study explores firms’ standard-setting strategies in wireless telecommunications. A quantitative case study of one standards development organization, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), provides measures for firms’ ability to influence technical standardization...

We empirically examine the effects of industry consortia on the coordination of innovation strategies of the members. Our analyses utilize membership data from 32 consortia in wireless telecommunication technology subfields from 2000 to 2005 and prior art citations in standards-essential...