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Research consortia refers to the associations of a group of firms or other types of organizations which agree to share the costs and results of a research project before the execution of that project. They typically involve a large membership and undertake pre-competitive research, but this term has been used more broadly. Government often uses research consortia to promote innovation, but their effectiveness depends on a country’s innovation systems. Cost-sharing and skill-sharing research consortia have different implications for a participant’s R&D spending and productivity. Researchers need to cope with the endogenous nature of participation when conducting performance evaluation studies.
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Sakakibara, M. (2018). Research Consortia. In: Augier, M., Teece, D.J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-00772-8_441
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