Technological Alliances and Innovative Performance in the Aerospace and Defense Industry

摘要

Through technological supplementary alliances, high-tech firms reach unexpected synergies in innovation activities and rationalize innovation processes. Technological complementary alliances may allow firms to overlap the possible lock-in effects which characterize supplementary alliances and encourage partners to break with existing rules, norms, and routine. In high-tech and science-based industries, where breakthrough innovations impose a combination of generic or basic knowledge anc science with applied research, cooperative agreements with universities emerge as an ideal source of specialist knowledge. Innovation requires new approaches to problem resolution, and an original recombination of technologies and resources.