The case explores and offers insight into the boundary-spanning dynamic capabilities
evidenced by the entrepreneurial CEO of a private-sector family-owned firm from the
sensing, seizing and transforming/reconfiguring perspectives during the opportunity
identification, evaluation and pursuit of the co-creation of a public-private sector partnership
in collaboration with the CEO of a public-sector firm. This partnership, which is situated in a
city-region in the North of England, is seen through the lens of an open business model
whereby value is co-created and captured outside the boundary of a single firm, and which
involves significant financial uncertainty being assigned from the public to the private sector