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An essential prerequisite for the establishment and long-term stability of cooperation between companies is that all parties involved benefit from the cooperation to an appropriate extent and that no company feels disadvantaged. In this context, methods of cooperative game theory could offer the possibility of distributing the cooperation-related advantages between the participants in such a way that the solution can be assessed as fair by all. However, it is difficult to find such a solution and it requires a prior operationalization of the object of distribution. There is a lack of both theoretical concepts and empirical findings in this regard. This book addresses this issue by developing a draft decision support system for the operationalization and fair distribution of efficiency gains in innovation networks. For this purpose, both operationalization and distribution approaches are presented and analysed. Finally, a case study is used to exemplify the implementation of the operationalization and distribution of efficiency gains and model limitations and extensions are discussed in relation to the AAL sector.