Another trend I'll be watching for is a greater willingness among Chinese firms to form joint ventures and competitive partnerships with foreign nanotech companies.
USAID recently announced a pre-competitive partnership with Keurig Green Mountain, Inc., Cooperative Coffees, Starbucks, and Root Capital to help coffee farmers combat the devastating coffee rust outbreak.
"Ultimately, it is possible that schools across the country can see the value in forming collaborative and non-competitive partnerships to help each other.
At Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, USA), the Institute for Global Health took a 'center-without-walls' approach to nurture non-competitive partnerships among and within departments and schools.
The two men have known each other since they were classmates at Harvard Law, and have a close, if competitive, political partnership.
Lowenstein's strongest bond was always with Jagger and he described himself as being "Mick's man" (he was godfather to James, one of Jagger's two sons by Jerry Hall), but he enjoyed a good relationship with Richards and had a shrewd understanding of the always-competitive Jagger/Richards partnership.
At this stage, there appears to be more opportunities for "coopetition" amongst content and tech players, far more than there are competitive, exclusive partnerships in the market--a good sign.
Ironically, for a government that prizes competition, competitive sport between schools has suffered after Gove cut school sports partnership funding.
Always striving to keep pace with the ever-changing nature of digital media and technology, I aim to improve my clients' competitive position through partnership, tenacity, and accountability.
