Includes bibliographical references. Porath, A. (2010). Collaborative research in management: Inside out. New Delhi: Response Books

Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Background -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Collaborative Research -- Chapter 2: The Challenges Facing Research since WW II: General Overview -- Chapter 3: Forms of Collaborative Research -- Chapter 4: The Multi-dimensional Model -- Chapter 5: The Partners and their Roles -- Part II: Practical Aspects -- Chapter 6: When should You get into a Collaborative Project? -- Chapter 7: The Decisive Role of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 8: The Academy-Industry Troubled Cooperation -- Chapter 9: Government: The Silent Partner -- Chapter 10: How to Run a Successful Collaborative Project -- Chapter 11: How to Avoid the Pitfalls of the Collaborative Project -- Chapter 12: Left Out: How to Compensate -- Chapter 13: The Future of Collaborative Research -- Chapter 14: How to Build a Successful Collaborative Research Program -- Chapter 15: National Application (India) -- Bibliography -- About the Author

"The even-shortening product life cycle, and the technological revolutions are placing increasingly heavy demands on the development departments of the industry, resulting in making the technological world more competitive. These trends make the technological sectors in the industry, more open to cooperation. In some sectors, a single firm cannot sustain the competitive advantage for very long in the highly competitive industry sections without heavy investment in R&D. Such heavy investment taxes the annual turnover of the firms and attempts are always made to reduce it. One of the simplest ways is to share the burden of R&D between firms. The main problem in R&D cooperation between firms is that, if the firms are technologically close enough to cooperate, they are probably also close enough to be competitors!." - From the Book