Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Julia Olmos‐Peñuela
Author-Name-First: Julia
Author-Name-Last: Olmos‐Peñuela
Author-Name: Paul Benneworth
Author-Name-First: Paul
Author-Name-Last: Benneworth
Author-Name: Elena Castro‐Martínez
Author-Name-First: Elena
Author-Name-Last: Castro‐Martínez
Title: Exploring the factors related with scientists’ willingness to incorporating external knowledge
Abstract: Science policy increasingly focuses on maximising societal benefits from science
and technology investments, but often reduces those benefits to activities
involving codifying and selling knowledge, thereby idealising best practice
academic behaviours around entrepreneurial superstars. This paper argues that
societal value depends on knowledge being used, making knowledge’s eventual
exploitation partly dependent upon on whether other users ‐ societal or
scientific ‐ can use that knowledge, i.e. on how far new knowledge is cognate with
users’ existing knowledge. When scientists incorporate user knowledge in their
research processes, what we call ‘open research behaviours’, their knowledge may
be more usable. We develop a set of hypotheses concerning whether researchers’
personal and professional characteristics are associated with open research
behaviour, finding evidence suggesting whilst personal characteristics are not
associated with open research behaviours; researchers that experience
professional signals validating open research behaviours are more likely to
demonstrate open research behaviour.
Length: 30 pages
Creation-Date: 2015
File-URL: https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/14233658
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 201504
Keywords: science and innovation policy, technology transfer, knowledge exchange, research processes, mode 2 research practices, knowledge production
Handle: RePEc:chs:wpachs:201504