It is often said that successful partnerships require both parties to have “shared goals”. However, since this is very hard to achieve when it comes to public-private partnerships, the focus should rather be on “complementary goals”.
Misalignment, which includes conflicting goals and incentives, is identified as one of the three major reasons for failure of strategic 4 4/5  BIS central bankers' speeches  partnerships.4 This is where governments have an important role to play.