Coopperative research and development: who participates and in which industries do projects take place?

摘要

This article identifies the characteristics of industry categories to which cooperative R&D participants belong and in which cooperative R&D projects occur, while focusing on the systematic linkages between these categories. The analysis is based upon 186 Japanese government-sponsored R&D consortia with 627 participants spanning three decades. Th motives for cooperative R&D are fond to be analogous to the motives for diversification.