DISSEMINATION OF INNOVATIONS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES USING PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS MODEL

摘要

Today public agencies face substantial challenges when trying to deploy new innovative productswith an Intellectual Property (IP) protection. The challenges range from negotiation procedures totechnical dialogues, specifications and conditions that allow the transfer of IP to other suppliers.Also, the legislations’ rules and legal barriers that prevent free transfer of IP to other users orpotential private partners. Partners/collaborators, that could improve, develop or modify theoriginally produced innovation by the public sectors or at least provide a massive scale that supplywith an economic value. The awareness of trends in technology and markets across wide range ofsectors such as infrastructure, transportation, information systems, building materials, ITtechnologies will help test and verify contract and procurement performance. This understandingwill enable the design and management of public private partnering as a model for procurement ofinnovation and deployment contracts. This paper examines key issues in the disseminations ofinnovation and new technology using public private partnerships as a model solution for publicsector agencies. The paper presents and discusses the principles and addresses the major challengesas well as collaboration models for deployment of innovative products and technical procurement.