Extensive research has been conducted on collaborative R&D in the last decades. Moststudies concentrated on multinational enterprises in traditional industries andpharmaceuticals. In this paper we focus on collaborative R&D in new materials development.This field can hardly be related to a...

The following paper explores the dynamics of the innovation process for new materials andanalyzes the interplay between military and civil applications in fostering research andtechnological advance in this particular field. Advanced materials R&D has been a focus areafor governments in North...

In multinational enterprises (MNEs), global innovation teams are used increasingly to pool knowledge from different international subsidiaries. While it is fairly well described how subsidiaries fulfill product and know-how mandates, how parents and subsidiaries may/should interact and why team...