Challenges of R&D institutions for technology collaboration with alliances in an emerging economy

This paper proposes the key challenges that can be used to improve a partner collaboration between R&D institution and industrial alliances. The focus group and in-dept interviews were adopted as exploratory means to extract insights and perspective of technology collaboration with alliances in the Light Emitting Diode industry in Thailand, an emerging economy context. The findings show that catching up opportunity and practical collaboration are the big challenges for taking R&D alliances appropriately. We then investigated how each key challenge determined the aspects in practice influences decision-making on partnership. It is demonstrated framework that R&D institutions and policies should take into consideration these challenges of alliance collaboration for growth economy.