ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a transaction cost analysis of the national and provincial policy interventions concerning the promotion of technical alliances in Canada. Contrary to most public policy studies on technological policy, which focus on the content of public policies, my study places the emphasis on the policy instruments employed and the criteria used, for example, in the promotion of competition and redistribution by the various policy instruments. In a more general context, linder and Peters (1984), Brandl (1988), Moe (1988) and Bryson and Smith-Ring (1990) have noted that the vehicles for the delivery of governmental interventions, or the policy instruments, have received insufficient attention from the students of public policy.
