This paper describes the initial establishment of a business-to-business network in a novel context - within and around a government department as it implements Purchaser-Provider relationships. A popular reform in public sector management over recent years has been the establishment of internal...

For most complex emergent technologies, product-market success depends on efficient linkages between changing lead innovators within the R&D process. In this paper, our unit of analysis is a complex high technology product and the system of alliance linkages formed to progress a product through...