page 52+: of Dual Mode Vehicle and Infrastructure Alternatives Analysis
ref: FHWA/TX-08/0-5827-1
" ...To look outside the transportation industry at other collaborative efforts, an excellent overview is provided by E. Raymond Corey in his book Technology Fountainheads: The Management Challenge of R&D Consortia (1997). This book reviews the history of six different major research consortia—the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the Gas Research Institute (GRI), SEMATECH, the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), and Bell Communications Research. Some of these consortia such as GRI served a vertically integrated membership including natural gas producers, consumers, distributors, and marketers, while others such as EPRI served a horizontal cross section with all of its members being electric power producers. The challenges in managing each are unique...."
see: Figure 24. SEMATECH Collaboration Maturity Model.