Subject: Request for participation

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 06:51:28 +0100 (CET)

Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA  02139

Dear Vlad SKARDA:

For years, the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Sloan School of Management has been concerned with the management of
technological innovation.  One of our current research priorities is
how companies and other enterprises use interorganizational linkages to 
spur technological innovation.

The purpose of this letter is to invite you to participate in our research
project.   This will require you or someone in your organization to complete a
questionnaire on technology alliances and cooperative R&D ventures.  In
appreciation of your help, we will mail you an executive report of the
results of the study.  You may find these results useful in planning future 
collaborations.  In addition, we will hold a random drawing of all
participants who complete the questionnaire and will award the winner an
honorarium of US$250.

Your participation is essential to the success of our research.  Please
be assured that MIT will take all possible steps to ensure STRICT
CONFIDENTIALITY.  Only aggregate results will ever be reported,
and only the investigators listed below will have access to the responses.  
We hope that you will find it worthwhile to contribute by sharing your
insights on the outcome of one of your external technology relationships.

We would appreciate it you would take a few minutes to answer the following
three questions.  Your response is greatly appreciated and will
help in providing demographic information on European R&D.  PLEASE RESPOND
BY 25 MARCH 1996 if at all possible.  If you have 
any questions, please feel free to contact the Principal Investigator, 
Christopher L. TUCCI, at the coordinates below.  Thank you!

Christopher L. TUCCI, Doctoral Candidate, Principal Investigator
Prof. Michael A. CUSUMANO, Investigator
Prof. Donald R. LESSARD, Investigator
Prof. Edward B. ROBERTS, Investigator

Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA  USA  02139

Tel. (+1) 617-253-0175
Fax. (+1) 617-253-2660
Email.  <[email-masked]>

> IMPORTANT.  Please place responses between the "arrows."
> EXAMPLE:  Imagine that you use "groupware" in your job.
> You would therefore choose answer '1' to the following question:
>
> Do you personally use "groupware" such as Lotus Notes, in your job?
> 1=yes
> 2=no
> --><--
>
> You would place the cursor between the arrows and type the number '1'
> so the final result would look like this:
>
> Do you personally use "groupware" such as Lotus Notes, in your job?
> 1=yes
> 2=no
> -->1<--

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You are listed by the European Union as the primary contact-person for your
organization for the HIPOS project.

1. When undertaking the HIPOS project, were you primarily 
affiliated with ...?
1=for-profit company
2=university
3=government / national laboratory
4=other non-profit
5=other
--><--

2. Are you knowledgeable about your organization's strategic and technical 
goals for the HIPOS project?
1=yes
2=no
--><--

3a. If you are knowledgeable about the project, would you be willing to
complete a short questionnaire about the project?
1=yes by EMAIL
2=yes by WWW (fastest way)
3=yes by MAIL  (your address:  --><--)
4=yes by FAX  (your fax:  --><--)
5=no
--><--

3b. If you are not knowledgeable about the project, can you recommend
someone who is?
Name: --><--
Email: --><--
Tel.  --><--
Fax: --><--

THANK YOU!  Please email this to <[email-masked]>.