Abstract:

One of the typical privatizations was “public private partnership” meaning to implement policy programs through public and private cooperation. Although most of the literature provided several models to explain possible situations of this type, they seemed not to test any practical case. This research tries to integrate the models from the literature and then explain the similarity and characteristics of the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium in Taiwan. First, we review the literature about public private partnership that offers the channels to examine the details of our case. And the mandated policy is one of the most important drives to perform public private partnership, rather than the cost factor. Further, we address the background and applications of Taiwan’s public private partnership. We put forward a case which concerns the public-private partnership of the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium and examines the operation in its management of integration of the resources, purposes, performance so on. Finally, we called the findings the “Taiwan Type Public Private Partnership” which is different from most discussions of the policy meaning in between public and private involvement.