NISTIR 7323 - Determinants of Success in R&D Alliances Jeffrey H. Dyer Marriott School of Management Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 Benjamin C. Powell Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Mariko Sakakibara Anderson School of Management University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095 Andrew J. Wang Advanced Technology Program National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899 August 2006 Click here to view Adobe PDF version of report.

Contents

Abstract
Acknowledgements
Executive Summary

I. Introduction

II. Theoretical Perspectives on R&D Alliance Success

• Alliance Design Factors: Alliance Structure.
• Alliance Design Factors: Firm Attributes  
• Alliance Management Factors

III. Data and Sample

• Analysis of Outcomes: Firm-level or Alliance-level

IV. Measures and Results

• Dependent Variables
• Independent Variables
• Regression Results  

V.  Discussion

VI.  Conclusion

References  

About the Authors

About the Economic Assessment Office  ................. Inside front cover

About the Advanced Technology Program   ............. Inside back cover

Tables
Table 1. Survey Respondents: Projects and Companies, by Year of Project Completion
Table 2. Survey Respondents: Projects and Companies, by Technology Area Project  
Table 3. Tabulation of Outcomes Variables: Overall_Value, Patent_Application, Commercialization 
Table 4. Description of Variables
Table 5. Summary Statistics for Variables
Table 6. Correlation Matrix for Variables  
Table 7. Regression Results for Outcomes Variable: Overall_Value
Table 8. Regression Results for Outcomes Variable: Patent_Application 
Table 9. Regression Results for Outcomes Variable: Commercialization 

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Date created: August 29, 2006
Last updated: September 11, 2006

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