Management of Collaboration in EUREKA Projects: experiences of UK participants

摘要: This paper describes findings on the management of collaboration arising from an evaluation participation UK in EUREKA programme. The principle issues addressed are origins and motivations for collabration, roles played by participants different types significance project outcomes. concludes that complementarity between partners key motivation collabration. Complementarity may lie dimensions, matching technical expertise or market expertise. Vertical relationships, users suppliers, energed as being particularly important projects frequently formed initial basis collaborative application. most overall finding was partnerships were genuinely interpendent, part because their foundation complementarity. Successful structures those which sufficiently robust to accommodate inevitable...