Interfirm Collaboration Involves explicit initiatives to enhance competitiveness through enterprise cooperation. Enterprises may collaborate with one another and with other organizations to cooperate in marketing, training, learning, production, design, technology deployment, and other areas of shared needs and opportunities.
Interfirm collaboration is being promoted by business groups and economic development organizations in many different industries, locations, and contexts around the world. We are engaged in assessing and evaluating these initiatives and in identifying best practices. A major project has involved managing the evaluation element of USNet, a federal-state consortium to promote interfirm collaboration. Information about USNet and the USNet evaluation can be found through this site. We have also conducted assessment studies in the US and other countries on interfirm collaboration. Follow the links on the index page (to the left) for more details.
Industrial modernization focuses on enhancing the competitiveness of manufacturers, usually of small and medium size, through the application of upgraded technologies, business practices, and relationships. For details of our work on industrial modernization, see the Georgia Tech Policy Project on Industrial Modernization.
ContactsFor information on the Georgia Tech Policy Project on Industrial Modernization and the USNet Evaluation Element:
Philip Shapira, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0345, USA; +1-404-894-7735; email: ps25@prism.gatech.edu | web page: http://www.cherry.gatech.edu/ps
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information on USNet:
Regional Technology Strategies, Inc., PO Box 9005, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-9005, USA,
+1-919-933-6699; jtrent@nando.net
