Final Report on Understandings of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research and Factors of Success and Failure

Baptista, Bianca Vienni; Fletcher, Isabel; Maryl, Maciej; Wciślik, Piotr; Buchner, Anna M.; Lyall, Catherine; Spaapen, Jack; Pohl, Christian

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“…We identified a “tension” between the disciplines involved in developing the policies and those responsible for carrying them out. Humanities and Social Sciences tend to be “soft” or invisible voices in the decision-making process (Vienni Baptista et al , 2020b). This illustrates the role interdisciplinarity plays in STI policy in Costa Rica.…”

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“…Research funding agencies in many countries support interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle the “grand challenges” societies face worldwide, but there is uneven guidance from funding schemes in terms of unclear or excessively rigid definitions of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity [1] (Lindvig and Hillersdal, 2019; Vienni Baptista et al , 2020b).…”

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Innovation models and interdisciplinarity in science, technology and innovation policy in Costa Rica

Kiewit

Baptista

2022

JSTPM

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Purpose This paper aims to analyse innovation models and interdisciplinarity in science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in Costa Rica between 2015 and 2021. The core focus is to evaluate the public policy in light of the groundwork that sustains the designed and proposed actions. Design/methodology/approach The authors applied a qualitative approach to build a set of dimensions and conducted content-analysis of selected documents. The analysis encompasses all current STI public policy documents in Costa Rica, including the planning instruments of the Central Government and the National Policy on STI. Findings The main findings show that STI policy in Costa Rica is based on different innovation models, but the projects and instruments themselves show the predominance of the reductionist model. Innovation receives a residual role. In turn, interdisciplinarity is based on the concept of convergence, which limits disciplinary collaboration to the natural, physical and engineering sciences, minimising contributions from other fields of knowledge to an instrumental role in innovation processes. Practical implications The authors conclude that the interlinkage between open innovation models, the participation of diverse societal actors and the inclusion of an interdisciplinary perspective leads to inclusive and more democratic public policy, allowing more sectors and organisations to benefit from innovation processes. This would imply a greater reach and impact of the policy, conditions that translate into innovation achievements and a better return on public investment. Originality/value This paper contributes to current discussions on STI policy by studying the implications of the link among policies, innovation models and interdisciplinarity.

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confidence: 99%