Public-Private Management Networks

 

Public-private networks are common features of the STEM improvement landscape, and often appear to have significant influence on the launch and sustainment of initiatives. Despite this apparent importance, they have not received much attention in the education research and policy arenas. Research on public-private networks in other domains has produced useful knowledge, suggesting that the study of networks as mechanisms in STEM innovation may produce practical guidance for policymakers, administrators and funders.

 

The Battelle Center believes it is important to understand how the structure and processes of such networks affect the productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of reform/innovation initiatives, and to illuminate which policy, management and leadership practices are conducive to robust and effective networks. Over the past three years, the Battelle Center has studied the public-private networks associated with the Ohio STEM Learning Network (OSLN), having released the Metro High School: An Emerging STEM School Community Study in 2008, and will release the OSLN Network Snapshot Study in the Spring of 2010.

 

A list of our partners in the public-private management network domain include:

 

Battelle Memorial Institute

Ohio STEM Learning Network (OSLN)

The PAST Foundation

TIES