One of the most important factors in quality improvement of transportation, communication, accommodation, utilities, etc is urban infrastructures development. Certainly, with the intention of achieving the goal, approaches to urban infrastructures management must be ranked by Scientific and logical evaluation and calculation. This paper presents evaluation of governmental, private, and public–p...

A government agency wants an infrastructure-based public service to be provided. Our experimental study compares two di¤erent modes of provision. In a public-private partnership, the two tasks of building the infrastructure and operating it are delegated to one private contractor (a consortium), while under traditional procurement, these tasks are delegated to separate contractors. We …nd suppo...

This article investigates how managers in public-private partnership (PPP) projects respond to social or physical events during the implementation of their projects, and which of their responses produce satisfactory outcomes. Multi-value Qualitative Comparative Analysis (mvQCA) was used to examine the events that took place during a large Dutch Design, Build, Finance and Maintain (DBFM) transpo...

Solid waste generated on land could potentially contribute continuously to marine waste, with current municipal solid management (MSWM) focusing human-related activities as the main source. While there has been challenges and opportunities in MSWM’s partnership growing generation for coastal tourism area, aim of this study is explore public private sectors key players identify challenges, oppor...

Im Rahmen des Future Internet – Public Private Partnership Programmes werden webbasierende Technologien und Plattformen entwickelt, welche neue Möglichkeiten für den Datenaustausch in Wertschöpfungsketten durch intelligente Vernetzung von Informationssystemen in Betrieben der Agrarund Ernährungsindustrie eröffnen. Dieser Beitrag gibt einen kurzen Überblick über das Programm und zwei ausgewählte...

The aim of this article is to determine whether there opportunistic behavior in local government decisions related contracting out, public-private partnership (PPP) and/or public externalization. Analysis the results obtained from applying a fixed effects panel data model sample 2,274 Spanish municipalities supports existence asymmetric behavior. Specifically, strong evidence that preelection y...

Motivation: For over ten years, Poland has observed a systematic use of the public-private partnership (PPP) formula in implementation investment projects. Local government units are particularly active this area. One self-government’s own tasks is management municipal property, including public utility buildings. The such tasks, accordance with European Commission’s recommendations, should be ...

Lebanon is grappling with the worst economic crisis in decades. One cannot escape reality that broke and set to face an even more agonizing downturn. While has lost many past opportunities develop its infrastructure including energy, waste management, water, transport, it high time authorities roll up their sleeves give development a fillip country through Public Private Partnership (PPP). Fina...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Despite progress in translational research, we are still falling short in developing the innovative medicines required to address major public health needs. Furthermore, the failure rate, time, and cost required for registration of a new drug are pushing the economics of the industry to the breaking point. New models of drug development based on collaborative endeavours...