Special issue on "Public/private partnerships in science and technology."

Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, [1998], ©1998.

266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

"The papers in this issue are drawn mainly from an ad hoc Thematics Workshop on Public/Private Partnerships held in Paris on 12 December 1997, and additional contributions from academic and field experts"--Foreword.

Public/private partnerships in science and technology: an overview / Mario Cervantes -- Rationale for partnerships: building national innovation systems / Jacqueline Senker -- Trends in university-industry research partnerships / OECD Secretariat -- Financing and leveraging public/private partnerships: the hurdle-lowering auction / John T. Scott -- Manufacturing partnerships: co-ordinating industrial modernisation services in the United States / Philip Shapira and Jan Youtie -- Public/private partnerships for developing environmental technology / Yukiko Fukasaku -- Characterising participation in European advanced technology programmes / Ken Guy, John Clark and James Stroyan -- Industrial technology partnerships in Spain / Jose Molero and Mikel Buesa -- Co-operative research centres in Australia / Don Scott-Kemmis -- The intelligent manufacturing systems initiative: an international partnership between industry and government / Michael Parker -- The fifth Research and Technology Development Framework Programme of the European Union / William Cannell.

Includes bibliographical references.