Productive interactions in a port city: a proximity approach to coordination in science-policy collaborations
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Understanding science-policy collaboration requires analyzing proximity dimensions. Different types of proximity can help or hinder interactions, with no single solution for coordination challenges in knowledge labs.
Area Of Science
- Science and Technology Studies
- Policy Analysis
- Innovation Studies
Background
- Existing literature lacks a framework for understanding science-policy coordination, perpetuating 'linear' models and 'gap' metaphors.
- Coordination between scientific and policy practices is complex and requires nuanced approaches to boundary management.
Purpose Of The Study
- To operationalize the multidimensional 'proximity' approach from innovation studies for science-policy coordination.
- To apply this framework to a case study of hybrid research spaces in Rotterdam.
Main Methods
- Utilized semi-structured interviews and focus groups.
- Engaged with scientists, policymakers, and policy researchers in collaborative knowledge labs.
Main Results
- Proximity dimensions (cognitive, social, organizational, geographic) can both facilitate and impede science-policy interactions.
- No universal mechanism exists to overcome coordination problems; knowledge labs employ diverse proximity combinations.
Conclusions
- Proximity concepts offer a detailed understanding of the balancing act in science-policy collaboration.
- Distinguishing between ordering and operating enactments of proximity reveals two types of knowledge production politics.
- Emphasizes the need for careful consideration of proximity dynamics in structuring science-policy collaborations.
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