Strategic Partnerships in Foreign Policy: Comparative Analysis of Polish - Ukrainian and Lithuanian - Ukrainian Strategic Partnerships

Strategic Issues in Public - Private Partnerships

According to Leland and Read (2012), planners in both the public and private sector generally have positive attitudes about public-private partnerships. However, there are notable differences in individual attitudes about the perceived opportunities and challenges of such collaborative ventures. Age, education, gender, race, political orientation and sector of employment are all found to influe...

The Evaluation of Strategic Research Partnerships

A strategic alliance ‘enables a firm to focus resources on its core skills and competencies while acquiring other components or capabilities it lacks from the marketplace’. Such alliances extend beyond research, the focus of this paper, and take a variety of forms. My own preference is for the ‘operating entity’ and ‘secretariat’ classification of Ouchi and Vonortas, which at least have the mer...

University and industry: From contracting relations to strategic partnerships; providing strategic role model in university-society relations

Establishing sustainable and effective interactions between university and society has always been a concern for higher education system. However, these interactions have always been challenged for various reasons. The reasons can be attributed to the type of attitudes toward the roles a university plays in interaction with industry, the lack of value-added strategic interactions with industry,...

Radical Innovation in Strategic Partnerships: A Framework for Analysis

Strategic Research Partnerships: Empirical Evidence from Asia

A This paper evaluates the role Strategic Research Partnerships (SRPs) play in Asia. Specific Asian institutional settings influence the roles of SRPs. Japan is regarded as a forerunner in the practice of SRPs. In Japan, lack of spillover channels, limited opportunities for mergers and acquisitions, weak university research and pressure for internal diversification motivate firms to form...