Excerpt from The Determinants of Success in R& D AlliancesThe background for this study was the earlier work by Jeffrey Dyer and Benjamin Powell under a contract with atp's Economic Assessment Office (eao). They interviewed company participants from atp joint venture projects in the automotive industry to assess the factors that contribute to success in r&d collaborations. Their findings are published in the report Determinants of Success in atp-funded r&d joint Ventures: A Preliminary Analysis Based on 18 Automobile Manufacturing Projects, ocr-00-803, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, December 2001.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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