Concepts and practices for the democratisation of knowledge generation in research partnerships for sustainable development

Ott, Cordula; Kiteme, Boniface

doi:10.1332/174426416x14700793045951

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“…The challenge lies in crafting such transdisciplinary interactions between representatives from science, policy, business, and civil society, and in opening up processes to the point which allows actors to make meaningful contributions, i.e. to influence decision-making (Ott 2017;Ott and Kiteme 2016).…”

Section: The Umbrella Challenge Of Sustainable Development and Socialmentioning

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Introducing the dilemma of societal alignment for inclusive and responsible research and innovation

Ribeiro

Bengtsson

Benneworth

et al. 2018

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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In this discussion paper, we outline and reflect on some of the key challenges that influence the development and uptake of more inclusive and responsible forms of research and innovation. Taking these challenges together, we invoke Collingridge's famous dilemma of social control of technology to introduce a complementary dilemma that of 'societal alignment' in the governance of science, technology and innovation. Considerations of social alignment are scattered and overlooked among some communities in the field of science, technology and innovation policy. By starting to unpack this dilemma, we outline an agenda for further consideration of social alignment in the study of responsible research and innovation.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: The Umbrella Challenge Of Sustainable Development and Socialmentioning

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Introducing the dilemma of societal alignment for inclusive and responsible research and innovation

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Journal of Responsible Innovation

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“…Two final publications provide substantial insights into this experience. Ehrensperger and colleagues present ESAPP's research and outcomes [57], while Ott and Kiteme [58] provide more in-depth reflections on the implementation, adaptation, and learning processes that took place within ESAPP. Taking up the arguments outlined above, I present programme features that proved to be supportive in strengthening deliberative capacity, equity-based knowledge generation, and institutional development for coherent local to global governance.…”

Section: An Emancipatory Construction Of Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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“…Ott and Kiteme [58] show how three contextual developments at the interface between science and policymaking had prepared the ground for ESAPP's unique and innovative programme design: First, decades of research collaborations and networking between Switzerland and countries in Eastern Africa had established trust and fruitful interaction between scientists, funding organizations, as well as governmental and non-governmental actors and institutions of the countries involved. This led to the launching of an integrative research programme that matched the scientific and political landscape of Eastern Africa.…”

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“…In ESAPP, conceptual and operational challenges or necessary trade-offs at the science-policy interface were addressed by combining the open partnership and research framework with recursive and (self-)reflexive processes that the project partners steered jointly [39]. Three structural approaches provided the necessary guidance (see also [58]):…”

Section: Adaptive Research Structuresmentioning

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“…In what follows, I will provide some insight into how indeed, they fostered equity and inclusion, the co-production of contextualized knowledge, and the development of people's and institutions' capacities, in the South and North (see also [58]). …”

Section: Adaptive Research Structuresmentioning

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World leaders at the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York have reconfirmed the relevance of sustainability as the guiding paradigm in countering the development and climate crisis of the Anthropocene. Recent decades however, have been characterized by confusion, contestations, and arbitrariness in defining the nature and pathways of sustainable development. Humanity must urgently find ways to unlock the potential of the sustainability paradigm and organize a sustainability transformation. An emerging sustainability science community has already established considerable consensus on essential features of transformative science and research. Sustainability scholars are providing growing evidence that an emancipatory and democratic construction of sustainable development and more equitable, deliberative, and democratized knowledge generation are pivotal in tackling sustainability challenges. These findings are further underpinned by experiences gained in the Eastern and Southern Africa Partnership Programme (1999-2015)-a rare case of a long-term, transnational, and transdisciplinary research endeavour already completed. The programme fulfilled the dual role which is compulsory in transformative research: It generated contextualized knowledge and innovation at the science-society interface while simultaneously securing meaningful participation and Southern agency in a co-evolutionary process. This paper offers insight into the programme's adaptive structure and implementation processes, which fostered deliberation, capacity development, and joint programme navigation benchmarked against local needs and broader sustainability demands. The ESAPP experience confirms that, if taken as the overarching frame of reference for all actors involved, the sustainability paradigm unfolds its integrative and transformative power. It enables sustainability-oriented actors from all scientific and practical fields to seek consilience between differing development and innovation paradigms and synchronize their development agendas and research frameworks on behalf of societal co-production of knowledge and innovation. Accordingly, the sustainability paradigm has the power to guide development and innovation policy, and practice out of the current confusion and ineffectiveness.

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Concepts and practices for the democratisation of knowledge generation in research partnerships for sustainable development

Cited by 20 publications

References 31 publications

Introducing the dilemma of societal alignment for inclusive and responsible research and innovation

Introducing the dilemma of societal alignment for inclusive and responsible research and innovation

Enabling Transformative Research: Lessons from the Eastern and Southern Africa Partnership Programme (1999–2015)

Risks of producing and using indicators of sustainable development goals

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