Abstract:

This paper highlights the international forms of cooperation in research and development for medium enterprises and it is based on the example of an enterprise from Germany. Medium enterprises face more and more difficulties to state a self-maintained position in the context of commercial competition since the modern production techniques, the high-tech large-scale enterprises often favored and the competition growing due to largely saturated markets. When the autonomous growth ceases because of the financial reasons, the only possibility is to merge with other enterprises from research and development field. This paper is based on a literature review from “international cooperation forms” field and on the study of an enterprise from Germany. The aim of this paper is to present different methods of international cooperation and to derive their optimal shape based on a study of an enterprise. To realize this objective, the authors conducted an analysis of an enterprise from electronic industry field in the period of PhD studies.