Technological Innovation, Corporate R&D Alliances and Organizational Learning
Abstract
The rapidly changing global economy can be viewed from the shores of merging streams of geopolitical events, management trends and new ideas. Among these are recent applications of the science of complexity to social and business questions; corporate experimentation with a variety of new management concepts including so-called "organizational learning," Clnd the shift from strictly competitive tactics to mixed cooperative and competitive strategies using multiple alliances for competition in global markets. These streams coincide with the end of the cold war, which has seen the transformation of national security policies based on relative military might to those designed to maintain, or regain, global technological and economic supremacy. In the domain of technology and innovation policies, these trends are poised squarely on the horns of a fundamental dilemma: "How can a nation achieve or maintain relative competitive strength, much less leadership, if it opens its boundaries through cooperative research alliances?" Put in other terms, "since sharing and cooperating imply giving away knowledge in order to develop new knowledge, don't the industrialized countries risk losing all relative advantage by allowing their private sector technology-based firms to form cooperative research ventures?"
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA608347
Entities
People
- Wayne G. Walker
Organizations
- RAND Corporation