USAID-funded US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security aspires to develop partnerships that are mutually beneficial, innovative, and collaborative and accessible to our diverse stakeholders. CAS-AFS seeks partners that contribute to the environment of co-learning and co-creational knowledge that will enhance the teaching, learning and innovation process along with fulfilling societal needs by solving community problems.
Public Private Partnerships (PPP) is a unique opportunity to complement the comparative strengths of the government and private sector. PPPs can help to overcome many of the impediments posed by market failure, institutional constraints, and systemic weaknesses in agricultural research and technology delivery by building on complementarities, exploiting synergies, and distributing costs and risk between the public and private sectors.
Academia and industry strive for common goals to meet the societal need. If these two work separately, the achievements could be at odds, as university researchers prioritize education and basic research while the corporate scientists pursue products and profits. Success depends on finding common goals and negotiating plans that pay off innovative solutions to a much larger extent because they spotlight the market.