Resumen de Response to mason and drakeman's commentary on �fishing for sharks: : Partner selection in biopharmaceutical R&D alliances�

Luis Diestre, Nandini Rajagopalan

• We respond to Mason and Drakeman's comment on our published paper titled �Are All �Sharks� Dangerous? New Biotechnology Ventures and Partner Selection in R&D Alliances� (Diestre and Rajagopalan, 2012). We discuss both their survey analysis and alternative explanation and conclude that neither of them invalidates our theoretical premise and our empirical conclusions.