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From
licensing, to production, to R&D
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development
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From
200 agreements per year in the 1980s to
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more than 600
per year in the 1990s
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Most
are between parents and foreign affiliates
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But
rising rapidly among non-affiliated firms
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Sometimes
it’s a substitute for M&A
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