The global surge in strategic alliances has led observers to coin the concept ”alliance capitalism” and suggest that they amount to a new logic of international business organisation and strategy. From the viewpoint of Finland, as a small and open economy, these developments can have...

Inter-firm collaboration in R&D is not a new phenomenon. What is new, however, is the rapid increase in such collaboration since the 1980s in parallel with increasing competition. Terms like “strategic R&D alliances” or “alliance capitalism” have been coined to conceptualise these...