I. The Role Players --;1. A Typology of Industry --;Government Laboratory Cooperative Research: Implications for Government Laboratory Policies and Competitiveness --;2. Financing Industry --;Government Cooperation in Industrial Research --;3. University --;Industry Relations: A Review of Major Issues --;II. National Strategies --;4. Historical and Economic Perspectives of the National Cooperative Research Act --;5. Technology Policy and Collaborative Research in Europe --;6. Joint R & D and Industrial Policy in Japan --;7. Cooperative Research and International Rivalry --;III. Impacts on Industrial Strategies --;8. Collaborative Research and High-Temperature Superconductivity --;9. Cooperative Research in the Automobile Industry: A Multinational Perspective --;10. Coalitions, Cooperative Research, and Technology Development in the Globalization of the Semiconductory Industry --;About the Authors.