The determinants of strategic partnerships
in research and development (R&D)
- A regional comparison among the German federal states -
by Frank Maaβ and Uschi Backes-Gellner1
Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn
( Institute for Small and Medium Size Enterprises, Bonn )
Maximilianstrasse 20
53111 Bonn
telephone: 0049-228-729970
fax: 0049-228-7299734
1 Prof. Dr. Backes-Gellner is Principal of the Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn (Institute for
Small and Medium Size Enterprises, Bonn) and Director of the Department of Personnel Econom-
ics at the University of Cologne, Frank Maaβ is an Economist for SME research at the Institut für
Mittelstandsforschung Bonn, Germany.