Building 'research-industry' partnerships through European R&D programmes Online publication date: Sat, 23-May-2009
by Blanka Vavakova
International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM), Vol. 10, No. 4/5/6, 1995
Abstract: The European programmes in R&D have made an important contribution to the development of co-operation between public research institutes and industry not only across, but within, individual member countries. The constitution of dynamic networks beyond the formal collaboration, the access of public sector researchers to the best industrial laboratories in European firms, and the opportunity for private companies to benefit from a larger pool of research resources than is available within a single nation, are among the positive features of the EU-inspired 'research-industry' partnerships identified here. Despite these benefits, the study (using data from interviews conducted in France and in Germany with researchers involved in the European Community's biotechnology (BAP, BRIDGE) and information technology ESPRIT, programmes also reveals a number of weaknesses in European partnerships that cannot be attributed, as many critical articles have done, to management problems at the Community level, but rather to the degree of commitment and extent of collaboration of the various partners.
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