If the presence of laws and rules dictate a form of collaboration, these relations are not made desirable by the fear of sanctions, be they legal or economic.
In this region, then, there is little collaboration, and relations between the partners are quite conflictual.
It examines research-policy partnerships within the four African study countries only and we do not cover other levels of partnerships in MHaPP such as North south collaboration or relations between research teams in the different countries.
In particular, the emergence of research outcomes would be an interesting phase to study, as this could give another dimension to the 'success' of this collaboration in relation to the adaptive space that has been created.
Firstly, we cannot limit or destroy our Euro-Atlantic collaboration in relation to the fight against terrorism: that would be a serious mistake, which I believe the European Union should avoid making.
We now shift our focus to consider ways in which these online environments can improve the capacity to support collaboration in relation to web-based patient education, in particular that which acknowledges experiential learning.
This means that unlike data reported in earlier studies where collaboration in relation to care-decisions was lacking, our ethnographic data consistently demonstrates parents and professionals sharing children's clinical care.
I took up a position at the National Research Council, this time as a manager dealing with international scientific collaboration and external relations with the local political and administrative bodies.
Through intersectoral collaboration, talents, resources, relations, and approaches to influencing determinants of health can be linked and shared to work very much more effectively, efficiently, and sustainably than one sector would achieve alone [ 8– 12].
