Collaborative projects and the number of partner nations |
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Authors: | Keith Hartley Derek Braddon |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, University of York, York, UK;2. Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK |
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Abstract: | Collaborative defence projects have been a distinctive feature of European defence industrial policy. This article focuses on whether the number of partner nations in international collaborative defence and aerospace programmes is a source of inefficiency. It appears that there is not a simple linear relationship. Two nation collaborations can be efficient, but conventional wisdom assumes that inefficiencies emerge with more than two partner nations. Inevitably, data problems made what appears to be a simple hypothesis difficult to test. The major result is that there is no evidence that efficiency as measured by development times is adversely affected by the number of partner nations. A limited sample regression and a comparison of Airbus vs. Boeing shows a similar conclusion. |
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Keywords: | Collaboration Number of partners Costs Time-scales Output Airbus Boeing |
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