From alliance-survey@MIT.EDU Wed Mar 20 06:52:43 1996 Received: from vms.eurokom.ie (vms.eurokom.ie [192.135.225.92]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id GAA25748 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 06:52:36 +0100 From: alliance-survey@MIT.EDU Received: from eurokom.ie (UNKNOWN@UNKNOWN) by vms.eurokom.ie (PMDF V5.0-4 #8109) id <01I2JWK73NGG001PGT@vms.eurokom.ie> for i18n@dkuug.dk; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 06:52:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 06:51:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: Request for participation To: alliance-survey@MIT.EDU Cc: i18n@dkuug.dk Reply-to: alliance-survey@MIT.EDU Message-id: <9603200551.AA13137@e51-090-5.MIT.EDU> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: Text/Plain; charset=US-Ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-PortaCOM: eurokom.ie X-CharSet: ISO_8859-1 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. > 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<-- -------------------------- 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 .