The Need for Public-Private Partnerships for the Performance of Agriculture

Gabriel Popescu and Ioana Corina Moga

                    Centrul de Studii și Cercetări de Biodiversitate Agrosilvică "Acad. David Davidescu", București

Keywords: agriculture; information generating added value; public-private partnership; knowledge transfer market.

 Abstract: In the knowledge society, which is rapidly following the industrial one, economic growth performance is supported by investments and innovations. The promotion of investments and innovations (as factors of progress) is done by means of new information generating added value (IGAV), which, in the knowledge society, acquire the quality of an economic good, and, like any economic good, manifests itself on a specific market, respectively the knowledge transfer market (KTM). In KTM, IGAV is a tool for connecting producers and consumers of progress factors in both the economy and agriculture. The classic producers of progress factors, with an innovative role in agriculture, are mainly academic and university research institutions in the public domain, and closer to the present, there are also actors from the private sector. In the composition of the consumers of progress factors, of particular importance are all categories of large, medium or small, commercial or autarchic agricultural producers, in an industrial, traditional or ecological system, to which are added actors from the product chain and others.
IGAV circulation in the KTM occurs through specific vectors (channels). The institutional framework in which these vectors can become operational is extremely diverse. With recognized performances, are non-profit associative entities that can facilitate public-private partnerships.