The article Leveraged Resources and Systems Changes in Community Collaboration by Gabriel Kuperminc and Christopher Harper (2014) emphasizes “the ability of diverse partners to come together to enact systematic changes to improve the health of individuals and communities.” The authors present a variety of examples that shows that changes in policy promote a successful, collaborative leverage of resources from state, federal and private partners. Inter-organizational collaboration is an essential part of community health and empowerment. The proper allocation of resources is attributed to policy implementation and the liability for some partners to accept a risk. The proper funding of programs/projects allows collaborative activities to function
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Partnerships in Critical Infrastructure Protection by Chris Koski examines the efforts of the DHS in building partnerships to protect critical infrastructures. It pays special attention to mechanism the DHS can build and foster a strong commitment to Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP). The definition of critical infrastructure is necessary since it is so broad and in the process, it can bring confusion, the DHS added what it calls “policy sectors” and “key assets” such as, nuclear facilities, agriculture, defense, the chemical industry, the postal service, shipping, national monuments, and other “key industries” as part of critical infrastructure (p. 3). The authors pay attention to other experts on the field that emphasize the idea that of “policy glue,” the ability to find or create common bonds across partners (p. 7). Financial inducements, organizational mechanisms, and sharing definitions of problems are examples of policy glue for CIP (p. 5). Financial inducement can be an alternative for building collaboration with the private sector to share responsibility for CIP. The organizational mechanism can also be a way to pursue collaboration with private actors. Avoiding problem definition is used to build a more trusted and engaged public-private …show more content…
The examination pays more attention to university-industry collaboration partnering for research agreements with the goal of knowledge-sharing to bring innovation in the academic and business world. It analyzes how cross-cultural differences play a role in the performance of public universities -private entities partnerships. The article states that businesses seek more a practice-based approach and the universities seek a research-oriented approach (p. 129). The article focuses on the diversity of these two approaches and suggests how they can be “bridged” regardless of their organizational differences (p. 129). In these sectors, organizational cultural differences (OCD) have been studied either from an individual level or an organizational level (p. 129). Firms need to speed up the process of innovation through the creation and development of new products and technologies (p. 130). On the other hand, universities need to lookout for additional financial resources, due to the decrease of government grants and enrollments rate, and the increase of competition regarding research (p.130). Both entities face challenges that can be ameliorated by the commercialization of knowledge and its exploitation. Overall, this commercialization would
Partnerships in Critical Infrastructure Protection by Chris Koski examines the efforts of the DHS in building partnerships to protect critical infrastructures. It pays special attention to mechanism the DHS can build and foster a strong commitment to Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP). The definition of critical infrastructure is necessary since it is so broad and in the process, it can bring confusion, the DHS added what it calls “policy sectors” and “key assets” such as, nuclear facilities, agriculture, defense, the chemical industry, the postal service, shipping, national monuments, and other “key industries” as part of critical infrastructure (p. 3). The authors pay attention to other experts on the field that emphasize the idea that of “policy glue,” the ability to find or create common bonds across partners (p. 7). Financial inducements, organizational mechanisms, and sharing definitions of problems are examples of policy glue for CIP (p. 5). Financial inducement can be an alternative for building collaboration with the private sector to share responsibility for CIP. The organizational mechanism can also be a way to pursue collaboration with private actors. Avoiding problem definition is used to build a more trusted and engaged public-private …show more content…
The examination pays more attention to university-industry collaboration partnering for research agreements with the goal of knowledge-sharing to bring innovation in the academic and business world. It analyzes how cross-cultural differences play a role in the performance of public universities -private entities partnerships. The article states that businesses seek more a practice-based approach and the universities seek a research-oriented approach (p. 129). The article focuses on the diversity of these two approaches and suggests how they can be “bridged” regardless of their organizational differences (p. 129). In these sectors, organizational cultural differences (OCD) have been studied either from an individual level or an organizational level (p. 129). Firms need to speed up the process of innovation through the creation and development of new products and technologies (p. 130). On the other hand, universities need to lookout for additional financial resources, due to the decrease of government grants and enrollments rate, and the increase of competition regarding research (p.130). Both entities face challenges that can be ameliorated by the commercialization of knowledge and its exploitation. Overall, this commercialization would