This article contributes to the emerging body of knowledge on the role of the private sector in knowledge brokering in international development because very little is known about the role of the private sector. It attempts to validate the findings of the only literature review to date (Kiwanuka et al, In Press) on the subject and other literature on knowledge brokering by consulting international experts in the field of knowledge brokering, identifying policy and research implications. The conceptual lens employed is the ‘extended’ Glegg and Hoens’ (2016) meta-framework of knowledge brokering, in combination with the cognitive, relational and structural aspects of social capital (Nahapiet and Ghoshal 1998). An online questionnaire survey was distributed to international experts in both the private, public and civil society sectors with some 203 respondents. The questions were developed on the basis of the literature. Respondents from the private sector and their colleagues from the public sector and civil society placed considerable emphasis on opportunities to meet, the existence of personal relationships and brokering by third parties as catalysts to working with the private sector. In addition to developing recommendations for policymakers, the paper has added to the emerging body of academic knowledge on the private sector as an unusual suspect in knowledge brokering and provides a conceptual framework linking social capital to knowledge brokering roles. Policymakers and funders can facilitate cooperation between the private sector and other development actors by creating physical spaces and funding instruments to encourage collaboration with the private sector. One of the novel findings is that the public sector needs to be better prepared to collaborate with the private sector.

本文对有关私营部门在国际发展中的知识中介中的作用的新兴知识体系做出了贡献，因为对私营部门的作用知之甚少。它试图通过咨询知识中介领域的国际专家，确认政策和研究意义，来验证迄今为止有关该主题和有关知识中介的其他文献的唯一文献综述（Kiwanuka等，印刷中）的发现。所采用的概念镜头是“扩展的” Glegg and Hoens（2016）知识中介的元框架，结合了社会资本的认知，关系和结构方面的内容（Nahapiet and Ghoshal 1998）。在线问卷调查已分发给私人，公共和民间社会部门，有203位受访者。这些问题是根据文献提出的。来自私营部门的受访者以及来自公共部门和民间社会的同事非常重视与他人见面的机会，人际关系的存在和第三方的经纪，以促进与私营部门合作。除了为决策者提供建议外，本文还增加了私营部门学术知识的新兴体系，使之成为知识中介中的罕见嫌疑人，并提供了将社会资本与知识中介角色联系起来的概念框架。决策者和资助者可以通过创造实体空间和筹资手段来鼓励与私营部门的合作，从而促进私营部门与其他发展主体之间的合作。一项新颖的发现是，公共部门需要更好地与私营部门合作。