Strategic Alliances
» Strategic Alliances, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2004
Let’s talk about long-term formal and informal cooperative agreements with other businesses.
1G1. How many of them are only with businesses smaller or equal in size to yours?
| Response | Small manufacturers with product or service-based R&D agreement(s) | All small, employing manufacturers/Small manufacturers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | 59 | 95 | |
| 2 | One | 23 | 3 | |
| 3 | Two or more | 17 | 2 | |
| 4 | DK/Refuse | 1 | 0 | |
| Total (%) | 100 | 100 | ||
| N | 78 | 610 | ||
Notes: Fifty-nine (59) percent of small manufacturers with a product or service-based R&D agreement have none with a business(s) of smaller or equal size (Q#1G1). Ninty-five (95) percent of small manufacturers have no product or service-based R&D agreement(s) with a business(s) that is smaller or equal in size (Q#1G1).
