A strategic approach to public-private collaborations needs more public management
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Italy, like many other countries across the world, were scrabbling to find enough masks and ventilators, Italian public and private organisations showed an extraordinary ability to forge new collaborations. In the academic glossary, these partnerships have been referred to as “hastily generated”, i.e. created in a hurry and without preconceptions, with the sole objective of giving an immediate response to the looming health crisis.