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Diversification, integration, and opening: developments in modelling for policy

the proliferation of models and the differentiation of respective modelling landscapes and communities, resulting in intensified competition for political authority and early path dependencies in their ... dependencies in their political use. Second, different models are increasingly coupled or integrated into complex model frameworks, raising questions of comprehensibility and accountability. Third, modelling for

Making sense of knowledge-brokering organisations: boundary organisations or policy entrepreneurs?

involves them in seeking to provide ‘objective’ evidence while simultaneously determining what counts as evidence for policy and making recommendations for political decisions. ... with different political systems, benefitting from significant government funding to provide evidence of ‘what works’ for policy and public service decision-making1 (e.g. £20 billion worth of public

Evidence-neglect: addressing a barrier to UK health and climate policy ambitions

structures for politicians that favour setting ambitious policy goals while disfavouring the effective policies needed to achieve them; second, political ideologies and interests that conflict with effective ... : these are unpopular with the public, but are among the most effective interventions for improving health and the climate. The political unpalatability of such taxes is illustrated in the fate of two

Science diplomacy from the Global South: the case of intergovernmental science organizations

Reactor, the Square Kilometer Array, and the African Lightsource. We show that countries of the Global South pursue a multitude of political and scientific objectives in IGSOs, ranging from capacity ... -building to casting off political isolation. Moreover, we demonstrate that Southern countries have varying chances of attaining these objectives, depending on their scientific community, domestic politics

China’s use of formal science and technology agreements as a tool of diplomacy

-income countries, possibly to establish political goodwill. While building political ties clearly remains an important Chinese objective, access to the latest know-how in S&T has become a critical part of ... . Role of STAs Science diplomacy practices and agreements arose for both political and scientific reasons. Science agreements between sovereign states arose initially among communist nations in the post

Navigating missions: experiences from a long-term R&I programme to transform the building sector in Austria

politics of missions and their links to particular interests and political goals, or about the influence of the broader economic and institutional environment on the appropriate design of missions (the ... party-political interests. Political leaders perceived the programme as a success, and the importance of the building sector both as an economic factor and with regard to achieving climate policy goals

Social innovation, transformation, and public policy: towards a conceptualization and critical appraisal

. 2014; Malakoff and Griffith 2016; Krlev et al. 2020; Koalition 2021). Second, a number of ambitious policy approaches have been established in many countries and at different political levels that aim to ... understanding the possibilities, limits, and effects that targeted political support for SI has on transformations or dedicated missions, it is helpful to differentiate different intervention logics with respect

Distrust in grant peer review—reasons and remedies

widely different research contexts. Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands are all northern European countries with relatively similar political, economic, and social contexts for research. While the research ... Crossref Search ADS WorldCat   Hardwig   J. ( 1991 ) ‘ The Role of Trust in Knowledge ’, The Journal of Philosophy , 88 : 693 – 708 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS

Making space for CRISPR: scientists’ translation work to make gene editing a legitimate technology

Norsk Gallup in 2006 reported that as many as 75 per cent of respondents rejected genetically modified food (Hviid Nielsen 2007), and this lack of public acceptance has halted both financial and political ... technologies such as CRISPR as a regulatory and social object. Scientists working with CRISPR are central actors in these negotiations, and their research provides knowledge to scientific development, political

Moving to Smart Specialization for sustainability: the implications on the design of monitoring indicators

align with the European Commission’s new political dedication towards sustainability concerns, the European Green Deal, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (McCann and Soete 2020; Marinelli ... milestones was achieved should be utilized to guide policy reactions accordingly (Kattel and Mazzucato 2018). 3. Research question Motivated by the political push to align RIS3 with sustainability challenges

Priorities in research portfolios: exploring the need for upstream research in cardiometabolic and mental health

disease burden of non-communicable diseases is the result of not only broad socio-political changes, including greater availability of care for communicable diseases, but also changes in diets and exercise ... to foster, inform, and support a ‘well-ordered’ debate on research priorities, in two fields that are often highly contested and openly political (Sarewitz and Pielke 2007). A parallel goal of the

The experimentation–accountability trade-off in innovation and industrial policy: are learning networks the solution?

through’ (Lindblom 1959), and a highly political process (Zachary Taylor 2016). However, policy-making is also a learning and collective process (Teubal 1996) where the aim is not to maximise a well-defined ... accountability as ‘a liability to reveal, to explain, and to justify what one does; how one discharges responsibilities, financial or other, whose several origins may be political, constitutional, hierarchical or

From global climate goals to local practice—mission-oriented policy enactment in three Swedish regions

: national, regional, and local. There are elected political bodies at each level—a national parliament, 21 county councils, and 290 municipal councils. Regional government, local government, and self ... created its first biogas strategy. This initiated a period when biogas received increased political attention and was strengthened by regional-level commissioned studies that considered biogas’s socio

Universities of applied sciences’ EU research project participation through the lens of differentiation

: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology , Vol. 20 , pp. 33 – 69 . Switzerland: Springer . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS Google Preview WorldCat COPAC   De Boer   H. F

Achieving societal and academic impacts of research: A comparison of networks, values, and strategies

, researchers have to deal with its often unpredictable complexities (e.g. patients’ problems, different interests of stakeholders, and political involvement), while academic impact is perhaps best achieved by ... practices across five disciplines (philosophy, mathematics, chemistry, anthropology, and medical science). See

The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration

geographic scope and inclusivity of the science diplomacy landscape reveals the interconnected nexuses of power operating across diverse diplomatic, scientific, and political communities. We identify five key ... wider diplomatic effort on the part of developing countries to assert themselves in world forums, especially the UN and its agencies. However, the scientific and technical arena took on a political

Exploring indicators for monitoring sociotechnical system transitions through portfolio networks

: evidence for corporate strategies . Political reason: evidence for public policies .  Relationship between basic research, applied research, experimental development, and innovation Determinant factors of ... : evidence on the ST&I process . Business reason: evidence for corporate strategies . Political reason: evidence for public policies .  Relationship between basic research, applied research, experimental

Analysis of COVID-19 recovery and resilience policy in Finland: a transformative policy mix approach

complex set of policy instruments. Recently, Borrás and Schwaag Serger (2022) have drawn attention to the need to better understand the embeddedness of policy mix designs in their political and ... policy accumulation have been addressed in political science studies (Howlett and Rayner 2007, 2013), and innovation studies have focused on real-world policy mixes (Flanagan et al. 2011) and regional

Exploring the degree of delegated authority for the peer review of societal impact

This article explores how panel expert reviewers’ evaluative practice was influenced by external, political considerations during the assessment of a societal impact criterion. The results showed ... results showed that prior to the evaluation process, participants demonstrated a strong preconceived, political belief that the results of the evaluation process must ‘showcase’ the value of British

Co-design and its consequences: developing a shared patient engagement framework in the IMI-PARADIGM project

inputs to the formation of institutional logics. The consequence is that diversities—political, epistemic, ideological, and so on—can be maintained rather than flattened out in the production of a