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

跨部门创新（IaS）研究计划探讨了跨部门合作（跨部门合作伙伴关系）提供公共产品（如医疗保健）的挑战。信息即服务研究的重点是公共部门（政府服务和系统）和第三部门（即社区，非营利组织，开源网络和数据库）之间新形成的伙伴关系。信息即服务进一步侧重于审查那些通常由私营部门创造的新数字技术（平台、社交媒体、人工智能）发挥突出作用的伙伴关系。建立、维持、管理和规范这些伙伴关系的挑战更加严峻，因为它们涉及多个利益攸关方（服务用户，如患者、专业人员和专业协会、私营公司、组织领导人、政策制定者和公众）。IaS利用跨学科研究团队以及定性和定量研究方法，在英国和加拿大的一系列实际案例中进行研究，并计划扩展到美国和更多国家。我们的目标是解决这些新的创新伙伴关系如何出现的重要问题，它们如何可持续，了解它们对各种利益相关者的预期和意外后果，以及如何在现实生活中进行监管或管理。

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.