Table 5.

Overview of generic coordination processes found at ACTS

Name	Activities	Intervention	Relationships	Mechanism	Performance
Bundling research plans	All CT research at PROs	Funding coherent research programmes and themes	Similarity (among proposals)	Collective negotiations	Public funding and industrial involvement
Alignment with NWO-CW	Funding instruments of CW and ACTS	Physical proximity and regular meetings	Social proximity and collaboration of policy makers	Economies of scale, unity in procedures	Good reputation, low overhead costs
Alignment with other parties	Lobby activities and research programming in CT	Physical proximity, regular meetings, EB representation, supervisory mandate	Acquaintance	Possibilities to collaborate, learn and innovate	(uncertain)
Bureaucratic efficiency	Various programmes within ACTS	Management and leadership by EB	Organizational similarity	Economies of scale, mutual learning	Accountability, low overhead costs

Coordinating actor: ACTS executive board

CT chemical technologies, PROs public research organizations, EB executive board