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West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States.

It is bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the north (and, slightly, east), and Maryland to the northeast.

West Virginia is the 9th smallest by area, is ranked 38th in population, and has the second lowest household income of the 50 United States.

The capital and largest city is Charleston.

A public–private partnership (PPP, 3P or P3) is a cooperative arrangement between one or more public and private sectors, typically of a long term nature.

Governments have used such a mix of public and private endeavors throughout history.

However, the past few decades has seen a clear trend towards governments across the globe making greater use of various PPP arrangements.

A government is the system by which a state or community is controlled.

In the case of this broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislators, administrators, and arbitrators.

Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as the mechanism for determining the policy of the state.

Forms of government, or forms of state governance, refers to the set of political systems and institutions that make up the organisation of a specific government.

Governments control the economy, social freedoms, and political systems, and may or may not be voluntary.

Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method".

However, innovation is often also viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or existing market needs.

This is accomplished through more-effective products, processes, services, technologies, or business models that are readily available to markets, governments and society.

The term "innovation" can be defined as something original and more effective and, as a consequence, new, that "breaks into" the market or society.

It is related to, but not the same as, invention.

Innovation is often manifested via the engineering process.

The opposite of innovation is exnovation.

In the United States, a state court has jurisdiction over disputes with some connection to a U.S. state, as opposed to the federal government.

State courts handle the vast majority of civil and criminal cases in the United States; United States federal courts handle different types of cases.