Frameworks for Scientific and Technological Research oriented by Transdisciplinary Co-Production

Edited by Lillian Maria Araujo de Rezende Alvares, Patricia de Sá Freire

Publication date:

06 December 2022

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781839986840

The work can be classified both as a reference work in Transdisciplinary Research Methodology and as a textbook to guide the Transdisciplinary Coproduction in the context of innovation and organizational and social development. The constituent elements of the work that make it a reference work in Research Methodology are the theoretical foundations on the unity of knowledge, on the issue of transdisciplinarity and on co-production, in a trajectory that begins with the first thinkers of the renaissance (and its basis in the philosophy of classical antiquity) addressing contemporaneity, supported by the main thinkers of transdisciplinarity and integrative research. The constituent elements of the work that make it a textbook is the presentation of the main conceptual frameworks on the partnership between academic and non-academic actors (public and private) for the co-production of scientific knowledge, which will be the basis for the presentation of a new method that is sufficiently robust to accommodate from scientific initiation to complex, deep and substantial doctoral studies.

List of Figures; List of Tables; Epigraph; Introduction, 1. The Concern with the Unity of Knowledge in History; 2. Transdisciplinarity; 3.Transdisciplinary Co-Production; 4. Transdisciplinary Research; 5. Knowledge Acquisition Design (KAD): A Framework for Transdisciplinary Co-Production Research in Knowledge Governance and Organizational Learning; 6.Final Remarks; References; Glossary; Appendix A: Timeline; The Authors; Index

‘This book offers a thorough survey of the literature on transdisciplinarity, collaborative research and research that crosses the boundary between science and practice, scientists and users, in the social environment, in pursuit of the common good. The integrative framework is that of the “Knowledge Acquisition Design” (KAD) framework that the authors develop. As such, it is a standard text for those who take a design approach to knowledge acquisition' —Bart Nooteboom, Emeritus Professor of Innovation, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.