Bridging two worlds? The troubled transfer of new environmental knowledge from science to consulting engineers

Hojem, Thea Sofie Melhuus

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“…External research scientists were occasionally consulted but did not appear to have made very visible translation efforts. This is in accordance with Hojem's (2012) finding that consulting engineering companies have limited interaction with research communities and suggests that technologies may be the most important translation actors with respect to bringing new knowledge into the building industry.…”

Section: Developing a Green Design Through Social Learningsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Few traces of translation efforts from scientific communities were observed and may be a common situation in the Norwegian building industry (Hojem, 2012). There is no clear explanation why this is so, other than that there seems to be a lack of time and resources to make new scientific knowledge relevant within the kind of time frames characteristic of building projects.…”

Section: Conclusion: the Importance Of Social Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Current policy is mostly concerned with climate issues, prioritising energy efficiency and providing some economic incentives to increase the level of energy efficiency beyond the requirements of the building codes. Thus, green design has been given some attention in Norway (Kongsli et al, 2008;Hojem &Lagesen, 2011), andMüller &Berker (2013) note an increasing interest in low energy buildings.…”

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Designing a ‘green’ building: expanding ambitions through social learning

Hojem

Sørensen

Lagesen

2014

Building Research & Information

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This paper analyses the making of a building called Miljøbygget, where ambitions in terms of environmental friendliness expanded, and it was also considered as green by outside observers. This process of expanding ambitions is examined to describe its main features as well as its context, primarily based on in-depth interviews with main actors in the project. The analysis departs from two theoretical concepts; translation which highlights how new knowledge is brought in through efforts to make it relevant, available and effective and social learning, the collective act of the project team of tinkering, discovery and analysis to improve the green features of the building. The paper outlines the processes through which a fairly moderate energy efficiency ambition is transformed, first into stricter energy efficiency goals, then into broader environmental aims. The resulting innovation is labelled an ambition-enhancing, experience-based, and enthusiasm-driven process of social learning in the project team, marked by interpersonal trust, including trust regarding competence and contractual relations.2 Additionally, translation efforts, bringing new knowledge into the project, were important. The conclusion discusses some policy implications.

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Sørensen

Lagesen

2014

Building Research & Information

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“…While the Mode 2 authors emphasize changes to knowledge production, they avoid expressly bibliometric approaches and instead employ studies of knowledge production use and dissemination in particular cases. This work includes the work on the triple helix framework (Shinn and Lamy, ), and the engagement with users (Hojem, ). Knowledge generation is closely connected to issues of dissemination and use and here, a number of researchers observe that information technologies hardly foreseen in 1970 such as data mining and automatic rating of research (Priem, ) have led to new forms of awareness of research.…”

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A long and winding road: 40 years of R&D Management

Rigby

2016

R & D Management

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Established in 1970, R&D Management is today one of the leading journals of the technology and innovation management (TIM) field that spans the business and management subject areas. It publishes innovative research with high academic interest. This paper reviews the journal's history and the major contributions of its first 40 years, examines its present position in the context of TIM literature, and then looks at the factors which might affect the journal in the future. Descriptive and nonparametric bibliometric methods are used to examine the historic performance of the journal and the field, its current position, and the factors shaping future development.

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“…The transfer of knowledge from research to practice is a perennial problem of a wide range of fields including business (Levin ; Jasimuddin and Zhang ), public administration (Ospina and Dodge ), health (Jacobson et al . ), education (Newton and Sackney ), environmental studies (Hojem ) and, not least, sustainable food production and rural development (Leeuwis ; Bruckmeier and Tovey ). Even when researchers believe they have found scientifically sound solutions to problems faced in the field, these solutions are often not put into practice.…”

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Knowledge Asymmetries Between Research and Practice: A Social Systems Approach to Implementation Barriers in Organic Arable Farming

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This article discusses the problem of implementing scientific knowledge in practice. The discussion is based on a case study of barriers to implementing research-based principles of sustainable organic arable farming. The current literature tends to see this problem either as a dissemination issue (the linear approach) or as a failure of science to address real-world problems (the co-constructive approach). We argue that Luhmann's theory of social systems offers a way to understand the shortcomings of existing approaches and enables us to identify knowledge gaps that have often been overlooked so far. This theoretical claim is substantiated by an empirical analysis based on 10 in-depth interviews with owners of organic arable farms. The farmers were interviewed about barriers to the implementation of research-based knowledge in practice. The analysis points to the operational closure and the observational blindness of both research systems and farming systems as the keys to understanding knowledge gaps and suggests new ways of dealing with the problems of implementing research knowledge in practice.

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Bridging two worlds? The troubled transfer of new environmental knowledge from science to consulting engineers

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Designing a ‘green’ building: expanding ambitions through social learning

Designing a ‘green’ building: expanding ambitions through social learning

A long and winding road: 40 years of R&D Management

Knowledge Asymmetries Between Research and Practice: A Social Systems Approach to Implementation Barriers in Organic Arable Farming

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