Edited by Rod Coombs, Professor of Technology Management and Director of Cromtec, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, the late Albert Richards, formerly, Research Associate, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, Pier Paolo Saviotti, INRA-SERD, Pierre Mendès University, Grenoble and IDEFI-CNRS-UNSA Sophia-Antipolis, France and Vivien Walsh, Senior Lecturer in Technology Management, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

• Technological collaboration and networks of alliances in the innovation process, Rod Coombs, Albert Richards, Paolo Saviotti and Vivien Welsh; technological agreements and the networks and economic theory - interfaces and issues in the areas of growth theory and the theory of the firm, Francois Chesnais; managerial objectives and technological collaboration - the role of national variations in cultures and structures, Andrew Tylecote; learning, trust and interfirm technological linkages - some theoretical associations, Mark Dodgson; networks, tacit knowledge and innovation, Jacqueline Senker and Wendy Faulkner; strategic technological collaboration in Canadian industry - towards a theory of flexible or collective innovation, Jorge Niosi; the simultaneous shaping of organization and technology within co-operative agreements, Vincent Mangematin; the techno-economic network - a socio-economic approach to state intervention in innovation, Phillippe Laredo and Phillippe Mustar; understanding "strategic alliances" - the limits of transaction cost economics, Mo Yamin; dynamics of co-operation and industrial research and development - first insights into the Black Box II, Francois Leveque, C. Bonazzi and C. Quental; informal networks in thr origination of successful innovations, Fred Steward and Steve Conway.

'I would recommend the book to those interested in the links between innovation and industrial networks. I am sure that a number of the contributions would be interesting to many readers of Management Learning; at least those not deterred by the word "technological" in the title.'

Edited by Rod Coombs, Professor of Technology Management and Director of Cromtec, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, the late Albert Richards, formerly, Research Associate, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, Pier Paolo Saviotti, INRA-SERD, Pierre Mendès University, Grenoble and IDEFI-CNRS-UNSA Sophia-Antipolis, France and Vivien Walsh, Senior Lecturer in Technology Management, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

• Technological collaboration and networks of alliances in the innovation process, Rod Coombs, Albert Richards, Paolo Saviotti and Vivien Welsh; technological agreements and the networks and economic theory - interfaces and issues in the areas of growth theory and the theory of the firm, Francois Chesnais; managerial objectives and technological collaboration - the role of national variations in cultures and structures, Andrew Tylecote; learning, trust and interfirm technological linkages - some theoretical associations, Mark Dodgson; networks, tacit knowledge and innovation, Jacqueline Senker and Wendy Faulkner; strategic technological collaboration in Canadian industry - towards a theory of flexible or collective innovation, Jorge Niosi; the simultaneous shaping of organization and technology within co-operative agreements, Vincent Mangematin; the techno-economic network - a socio-economic approach to state intervention in innovation, Phillippe Laredo and Phillippe Mustar; understanding "strategic alliances" - the limits of transaction cost economics, Mo Yamin; dynamics of co-operation and industrial research and development - first insights into the Black Box II, Francois Leveque, C. Bonazzi and C. Quental; informal networks in thr origination of successful innovations, Fred Steward and Steve Conway.

'I would recommend the book to those interested in the links between innovation and industrial networks. I am sure that a number of the contributions would be interesting to many readers of Management Learning; at least those not deterred by the word "technological" in the title.'

Edited by Rod Coombs, Professor of Technology Management and Director of Cromtec, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, the late Albert Richards, formerly, Research Associate, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, Pier Paolo Saviotti, INRA-SERD, Pierre Mendès University, Grenoble and IDEFI-CNRS-UNSA Sophia-Antipolis, France and Vivien Walsh, Senior Lecturer in Technology Management, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

• Technological collaboration and networks of alliances in the innovation process, Rod Coombs, Albert Richards, Paolo Saviotti and Vivien Welsh; technological agreements and the networks and economic theory - interfaces and issues in the areas of growth theory and the theory of the firm, Francois Chesnais; managerial objectives and technological collaboration - the role of national variations in cultures and structures, Andrew Tylecote; learning, trust and interfirm technological linkages - some theoretical associations, Mark Dodgson; networks, tacit knowledge and innovation, Jacqueline Senker and Wendy Faulkner; strategic technological collaboration in Canadian industry - towards a theory of flexible or collective innovation, Jorge Niosi; the simultaneous shaping of organization and technology within co-operative agreements, Vincent Mangematin; the techno-economic network - a socio-economic approach to state intervention in innovation, Phillippe Laredo and Phillippe Mustar; understanding "strategic alliances" - the limits of transaction cost economics, Mo Yamin; dynamics of co-operation and industrial research and development - first insights into the Black Box II, Francois Leveque, C. Bonazzi and C. Quental; informal networks in thr origination of successful innovations, Fred Steward and Steve Conway.

'I would recommend the book to those interested in the links between innovation and industrial networks. I am sure that a number of the contributions would be interesting to many readers of Management Learning; at least those not deterred by the word "technological" in the title.'