Managing R&D alliances within government: The "virtual agency" concept

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 297-306

  Castro, Miguel ^a   Foster, Roger S ^b   Gunn, Kevin ^c   Roberts, Edward B ^d  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b High Performance Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c US Air and Space Operations Center   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

"Virtual" R D; Alliances; Cooperative R D; Government R D; R D organizations; Technology policy

Indexed keywords

RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

ALLIANCES; TECHNOLOGY POLICY; VIRTUAL AGENCY;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0242270693     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2003.817300     Document Type: Article

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