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Engage impact investors
Engage impact investors
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We need engaged science organisations to tackle societal challenges - from climate change to digitalisation. What does this mean for the future strategy of research organisations? Our Research-to-Action Compass demonstrates how research organisations can expand their support for knowledge exchange and impact more diverse science advice in three increasingly prominent fields: diverse science advice for policy, effective science communication, and sustainable entrepreneurship.
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The Research-to-Action Compass tool was developed as part of the research project "Transferwissenschaft", a collaboration between the Fraunhofer IAO Center for Responsible Research and Innovation and the Technische Universität Berlin, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) for a period of three years (2019-22).
The research team conducted survey, interview, and mapping studies to analyse the current landscape of support for knowledge exchange and impact at German research organisations. In the above catalogue, the team compiled archetypal support measures for diverse science advice for policy, effective science communication, and sustainable entrepreneurship at prominent organisations in Germany and the UK, a knowledge and impact pioneer. The best practice cases highlight particularly successful implementations of support for knowledge exchange and impact from the sample of organisations. Moreover, the research team rated each support measure based on a set of five criteria relevant to their practical implementation.
The method and sample are described in detail below.
The evaluation is based on the following criteria:
"low" = up to one of the relevant criteria fulfilled.
"medium" = two criteria are fulfilled
"high" = all three criteria are fulfilled
The evaluation is based on an expert assessment of the research team on the basis of information available in writing or collected in interviews (seven interviews with policy engagement professionals, five interviews with public engagement practitioners, and 53 interviews with innovation managers in incubators).
The evaluation is based on the occurrence of support measures of this kind in the sample. (Due to the design of the study and the sample selection, the ratings for sustainable entrepreneurship were only estimated by the research team on the basis of the available qualitative data.)
"established" = found in more than 25% of the institutions in the sample.
"tested" = found in 10-25% of the institutions in the sample
"innovative" = found in less than 10% of the institutions in the sample
The evaluation is based on the following criteria:
"quick" = up to one of the relevant criteria fulfilled
"balanced" = two criteria are fulfilled
"in-depth" = all three criteria are met
The evaluation is based on an expert assessment of the research team on the basis of information available in writing or collected in interviews (seven interviews with policy engagement professionals, five interviews with public engagement practitioners, and 53 interviews with innovation managers in incubators).
Responsible researcher: Henriette Ruhrmann
Responsible researchers: Lale Altinalana-Widenka und Dr Konstantin Kiprijanov
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Responsible researcher: Marc Karahan
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