Sharing knowledge: a new frontier for public-private partnerships in medicine

GRID LINES Sharing knowledge , experiences , and innovations in public - private partnerships in infrastructure

Helping to eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable development through public-private partnerships in infrastructure noTE no. 44 – oCT 2008 F or the urban poor in developing countries, informal waste recycling is a common way to earn income. There are few reliable estimates of the number of people engaged in waste picking or of its economic and environmental impact. Yet studies suggest that w...

Public-private partnerships for hospitals.

While some forms of public-private partnerships are a feature of hospital construction and operation in all countries with mixed economies, there is increasing interest in a model in which a public authority contracts with a private company to design, build and operate an entire hospital. Drawing on the experience of countries such as Australia, Spain, and the United Kingdom, this paper reviews...

Public-Private Partnerships

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, ...

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...