Course programme

The course consists of the following themes:

1. Introduction to the course, governments and businesses: interests, philosophies, visions

2. Brief history of government-business relations

3. Business vs government modes of operation: government and coroporate inner workings

4. Levels and modes of government-business interactions: Government running a business and business running public services and infrastructure

5. Multi-level system of regulations (EU-member states-local administration)

6. Designing regulations and contract writing, ways of promoting public and private interests

7. Public procurement, tendering strategies

8. Outsourcing, contracting out, joint ventures and public-private partnerships: practical examples

9. Is public-private-citizen collaboration the next phase in the development of the public-private relationship?

10. Corruption, monopoly, oligopoly and other socio-pathological phenomena degrading public-private interactions