Bowen et al offer a sobering look at the reality of research partnerships from the decision-maker perspective. Health leaders who had actively engaged in such partnerships continued to describe research as irrelevant and unhelpful – just the problem that partnered research was intended to solve. This commentary further examines the many barriers that impede researchers ...

Background Emerging evidence that meaningful relationships with knowledge users are a key predictor of research use has led to promotion of partnership approaches to health research. However, little is known about health system experiences of collaborations with university-based researchers, particularly with research partnerships in the area of health system design and health service org...

--Partnerships between research scientists and land man­ agers can facilitate the application of research findings. Successful partnerships developed between Rocky Mountain Station scien­ tists and the Southwestern Region staff have been involved in addressing riparian-stream interactions. These successful partner­ ships involve several interpersonal and organizational consider­ ations. Example...

BACKGROUND Global health research partnerships are commonly led by Northern investigators who come from resource-rich research environments, while Southern partners participate with a paucity of research skills and resources. This power asymmetry within North-South research partnerships may further exacerbate the unequal distribution of benefits from the research process. METHODS This study i...

Academic-service partnerships are the future. These partnerships require a new paradigm and new practice models that necessitate change in how and where decisions are made as well as who is accountable for both the decisions and the outcomes of those decisions. The role of organizational leaders in this new paradigm becomes aligning resources to create and sustain partnerships. Partnerships are...

Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), she called for increased research into their cause, including the question of whether the Zika virus is the source of the problem.1 The declaration provides an opportunity to step up the pace of research in order to find the answer to some important questions more quickly. It could not only facilitate the accumulation of knowledge about ...

A strategic alliance ‘enables a firm to focus resources on its core skills and competencies while acquiring other components or capabilities it lacks from the marketplace’. Such alliances extend beyond research, the focus of this paper, and take a variety of forms. My own preference is for the ‘operating entity’ and ‘secretariat’ classification of Ouchi and Vonortas, which at least have the mer...