Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Hall, Andy
Author-Email: hall@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social
	 Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology
Title: Public private sector partnerships in an agricultural system of innovation:
	 concepts and challenges
Abstract: The potential for public private sector partnerships is likely to grow.
	 However, despite a number of high profile success stories, promoting
	 partnerships has proved more difficult than many assumed. This paper
	 argues that such partnerships need to be viewed in the framework of an
	 innovation system and a development scenario where networks of
	 agro-enterprises and intermediary organisations will underpin rural
	 development and poverty reduction. This view helps reveal the importance
	 of embedding public research organizations within these local networks
	 and highlights that constraint to building partnership is usually
	 institutional in nature – i.e. it relates to habits practices and
	 patterns of trust. The paper concludes by suggesting that efforts should
	 be focused on building social capital in agricultural innovation systems
	 and cautions that this should be done in contextually relevant ways.
Classification-JEL: O32, O38, J24
Keywords: Public private sector partnerships, innovation systems, institutional change,
	 capacity building, social capital
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2006
Number: 2006-002
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2006/wp2006-002.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2006002