Private Sector Engagement

Initiative goals

We support Science Granting Councils (SGCs) to develop frameworks and enabling structures for public–private sector partnerships in research and innovation. We have partnered with the councils to:

• Support research competitions involving private sector actors.
• Provide training on strategic communication with the private sector and support the development of communication action plans.
• Expand research and innovation projects involving the private sector.
• Support national platforms for dialogue between research bodies and private sector actors.
• Conduct landscape and gap analysis studies to further identify, refine, and prioritize the private sector engagement needs of SGCs.
• Develop policy frameworks and strategies to promote private-sector partnerships.
• Support the implementation of private sector engagement frameworks in selected pilot countries.
• Develop manuals, toolkits, model strategies, and other materials that SGCs and their partners can use to develop/strengthen policies and structures for effective private sector engagement and commercialization of research.
• Support the piloting and implementation of the tools in selected SGCs to draw and share lessons and experiences.
• Establish a commercialization grants scheme to pilot the application of the frameworks, tools, and approaches developed under this work package.