Abstract
Quantitative analysis was conducted to estimate the effect of organizational forms (concentrated R&D, vertical collaboration, horizontal collaboration, and industry-academia collaboration) on the results of national R&D consortia by using NEDO follow-up surveys. The following conclusions were obtained by analysis which includes the formation process of R&D each organization form for the material field and the life-science field; (i) downstream vertical collaboration was found to have positive effects on practical application and it is important to match position and motivation among collaborating firms for improving vertical collaboration (ii) horizontal collaboration has negative effects on practical application (iii) concentrated R&D and industry-academia collaboration have no direct effect on practical application and firms with week technology in the material fields and with low social cognition technology in the life-science fields participate in concentrated R&D to acquire technological knowledge in emerging R&D networks (iv) Industry-academia collaboration leads to continued R&D after a project.
