How Do European Firms Cooperate?
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This paper presents the existing state of cooperation issues among European manufacturing firms. We have conducted a survey within several European countries and asked their manufacturing firms with at least 20 employees if they are keen to cooperate with other firms and other institutions in the field of R&D with universities and other research institutions, R&D with other firms (customers and suppliers excluded), production (manufacturing) area, purchasing area, service area / sales area / distribution area, education and training area. The authors present results and interpret the cooperation patterns in different countries.
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