Innovating across sectors: Examining new models of work and novel organizational forms emerging in partnerships between the public and third sectors

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The Innovating Across Sectors (IaS) research program examines the challenges of partnering across sectors (cross-sectoral partnerships) to provide public goods, such as healthcare. IaS research focuses on newly-formed partnerships between the public sector (government services and systems) and the third sector (i.e. community, nonprofit organizations, open source networks and databanks). IaS further focuses on examining those partnerships where new digital technologies (platforms, social media, artificial intelligence), often created by the private sector, have a prominent role. The challenge of creating, maintaining, managing and regulating these partnerships is heightened because they involve multiple stakeholders (service users such as patients, professionals and professional associations, private companies, organizational leaders, policymakers and the public).IaS leverages an interdisciplinary research team, as well as both qualitative and quantitative research methods, to examine in real-life settings a series of cases in the UK and Canada with plans to expand to the USA and more countries. We aim to address important questions of how these new innovative partnerships emerge, how they can be sustainable, to understand their intended and unintended consequences for various stakeholders and how these are regulated or managed in real-life settings.