THE DYNAMICS OF INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS IN A MAJOR PUBLIC RESEARCH INSTITUTES LABORATORIES - COORDINATION, LEARNING, REPUTATION AND CONFIDENCE

Assuming that cooperation between public and private research laborato ries is a full-fledged scientific activity, it is then important to an alyze the relations between scientists in these different organization s. The diversified ''relational logics'' (of proximity, of the club an d of the marketplace) can account for the types of contracts and forms of coordination and learning that underlie and structure each case of cooperation.