Capturing Knowledge: Private Gains and Public Gains from University Research Partnerships

Public-Private Partnerships

Finance and Public-Private Partnerships

A PPP bundles investment and service provision of infrastructure into a single long-term contract. A group of private investors finances and manages the construction of the project, then maintains and operates the facilities for a long period of usually 20 to 30 years, and at the end of the contract transfers the assets to the government. During the operation of the project, the private partner...

The Valuation of Knowledge in Public-Private Partnerships

This chapter is about a special form of virtual organization: the Public-Private Partnership (PPP), created for the purpose of generating new knowledge. PPPs typically consist of three types of partners: academia (universities and affiliated institutions), industry (individual companies) and government (departments or agencies). The PPP delivers knowledge to its participants. At the same time, ...

Building Public-Private Research Partnerships in Troubled Times

The Indian government is launching a series of new initiatives to boost public-private research partnerships and to jumpstart science-driven economic growth. But will the current global economic downturn hamper these efforts?

Public-private partnerships: an overview.

The development and marketing of medicines needed specifically to combat diseases of the developing world are commercially unattractive because the populations concerned are among the poorest on earth. Partnerships which bring together pharmaceutical companies, academics, not-for-profit organizations, philanthropists, governmental and inter-governmental agencies are an increasingly popular solu...